This scrapbook includes photographs and archival material and handmade invitations related to the Concordia Society, a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This scrapbook includes photographs and archival material related to the Concordia Society of the Swedish Hospital. This book received the 1974 award of the Minnesota Hospital Association for the Best Historical Book of the Year. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
Because Sister Borgia was willing to take on any task asked of her, she responded to Dr. Page E. Stangl's (pathologist) request to help him set up a laboratory of animals for research. She called herself the zoo-keeper and worked with this project in her quiet, unassuming way for 39 years--first in crowded conditions among the offices on 6th floor of the hospital and then in the seclusion of the sub-basement.
In 1887, two years after starting a hospital in Bismarck, North Dakota, St. John's Abbey gave the sisters the minor seminary which was part of the monks' St. Clement Priory building complex of church, rectory and school in Duluth. Encouraged by the success of their hospital in St. Cloud, the sisters converted the seminary to a hospital and named it St. Mary's Hospital (2nd building on the right ). The hospital was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Benedictine sisters in Duluth when they branched off from St. Benedict's Convent, St. Joseph, MN, to form an independent convent in Duluth in 1892 (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
As early as 1878 while prospecting for a site to establish a college for men in the Dakota Territory, Abbot Alexius Edelbrock, OSB, became aware of the need for a hospital in the still undeveloped area of Mandan and Bismarck. In 1885 he bought the Lamborn Hotel in Bismarck and succeeded in interesting Mother Scholastica Kerst in converting it to a hospital. It was a challenge to change the settlers' prejudice against hospitals as institutions for the wayward and shiftless. However, after five years and with the expertise of Dr. E. pageQuaine in surgery and Sister Boniface Timmers, OSB, in administration, the hospital gained favor and grew from a primitive institution to one of the finest hospitals in the land. With the help of a donation from St. John's Abbey, the Benedictine sisters were able to repay the abbey for the debt incurred by the original purchase and they named the hospital St. Alexius. By 1913, they were able to build a new hospital and to organize a school of nursing there (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; McDonald, pages 126-137).
Surgery Room B at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. The large window would have allowed an ample supply of natural light to illuminate the room during a surgery.
Miller Hospital Construction; Miller Memorial Hospital was built in 1932 on the site of the razed Ray house at 502 East Second street; the hospital was later named Miller Dwan; a construction shot; car parked; steel beams being placed; Lounsberry Construction sign; Lounsbury and Son Builders 322 1/2 east Superior street; trees; man observing; cement truck and workers; building materials; ladder; guide wires; Lake Superior
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
East Hillside; Hearding Hospital; 612 East Third street interior view of surgery room with equipment and gurney; glass fronted cabinets affixed to the walls; sink; toilet; steel enamel tables and carts on wheels; was used as a jail 1884-1924; 1925 dispensary and infirmary; served as a rest home for a period
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Fully dressed patients are shown reading in bed at Hopewell Hospital, Minneapolis City Hospital's quarantine hospital and tuberculosis sanatorium. The hospital operated from 1907-1924 and was later renamed the Parkview Sanatorium.
A classroom at The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis that features a "patient" resting in a hospital bed in the front corner of the room.
1963 architectural plans of Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
1963 architectural plans of Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
1963 architectural plans of Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plan of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
People are pictured walking through the landscaped gardens, flower beds and walkways of the Rochester State Hospital. The hospital, also known as the Second Hospital for the Insane, opened in 1879. Farm fields are visible in the background.