New Jersey Medical History Postcard Collection
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Health Care Facilities by name:
Commercial Businesses and Institutions
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The postcard collection documents a variety of medical care facilities, and health-related businesses and institutions in New Jersey throughout the 20th century. The collection of 709 cards contains black and white, color, sepia-toned, and ‘realphoto' postcards. Most of the items date to the early 1900s -- the "golden era" of post card production. The collection is divided into three broad areas: Health care facilities, Commercial businesses and institutions, and Miscellaneous.


Commercial businesses and institutions consist of large pharmaceutical companies, local drug stores, pharmaceutical and patent medicine advertisements, physician appointment reminders and advertising, and funeral homes; they are arranged alphabetically by business name. Miscellaneous includes a number of New Jersey health-related subjects, such as medical schools and individual doctor's cards. The miscellaneous items are sorted alphabetically.
Health care facilities are buildings and institutions that provide health-related assistance to individuals. They are organized by location. These facilities include: hospitals, infirmaries, medical centers, asylums, sanitariums, health resorts, convalescent and other special homes, preventoriums, special schools and summer camps, homes for the aged and veteran soldiers and their families, and rehabilitation institutes. For many of these structures, postcard images are the only visual records that remain for them. In addition, several facilities documented in this collection no longer exist or new medical buildings have replaced them.
Bibliography
Densky-Wolff, Lois R. "Part I: Hospital Postcards: The New Jersey View." New Jersey Medicine 91.2 (February 1994): 85-89.
-----. "Part II: Hospital Postcards: The New Jersey View." New Jersey Medicine 91.3 (March 1994): 160-165.
-----. "Why Libraries Collect Postcards: Two Case Studies." Popular Culture in Libraries 3.2 (1995): 35-39.
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Health Care Facilities A-L
By Geographic Location
A
Almonessen
- First Aid Station, Sunset Beach (1)

Atlantic City
- Beach Patrol Hospital at Steel Pier (1)
- Children's Seashore House for Invalid Children/Betty Bacharach Home for Crippled Children (1)
- England General Hospital (2)
- Mercer Memorial House, Seaside House for Invalid Women (1)
B
Bayonne
- Bayonne Hospital (2)
- Bayonne Hospital and Nurses' Home (1)

Belmar
- Ann May Memorial Hospital (2)

Belleville
- Clara Mass Memorial Hospital (3)
- Essex County Isolation Hospital (2) SEE ALSO Newark
Belle Mead
- Belle Mead Farm Colony & Sanatorium (2 + 1 neg.)
Belvidere
- Presbyterian Home for the Aged (1)

Berkeley Heights
- Berkeley Hall Nursing Home (1)
- Bonnie Burns Tuberculosis Hospital (8 + 1 neg.) SEE ALSO Scotch Plains
- [John E.] Runnells Specialized Hospital (2)
Berlin
- Oakland Farm in the Pines (1)

Bloomfield
- Beacon Nursing Home (1)
- Job Haine's Home for Aged (1)
Bound Brook
- Bound Brook Hospital (1)

Bridgeton
- Bridgeton City Hospital (4)
- Ivy Hall Sanitarium (1)
- Dr. Reba Lloyd's Sanitarium (1)
Browns Mills
- Deborah Hospital (3)

Burlington
- Charles A. Eisenfelder Medical Complex, Masonic Home (1)
Butler
- Bancroft Health Resort (1)
- Dr. Lust's Sanitorium (2)
- Naturopathic Sanitarium SEE Dr. Lust's Sanitorium
- Yungborn SEE ALSO Dr. Lust's Sanitorium (7)

C
Camden
- Cooper Hospital (5 + 1 neg.)
- Our Lady of Lourdes (1)
- West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital (1 + 1 neg.)
- West Jersey Hospital (1)
Camp Dix SEE Wrightstown
Camp Kilmer SEE Edison Twp.
Camp Merrit SEE Tenafly
Cape May
- Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital (1)
- South Cape Nursing Home (1)
- U. S. Army General Hospital, No. 11 (3)
D

Denville
- Diamond Spring Lodge (New Jersey Foundation for the Blind (2)
- Kneipp Water Cure (1)
- St. Francis' Health Resort (7)

Dover
- Dover General Hospital (1)
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East Orange
- East Orange General Hospital (2)
- Homeopathic Hospital of Essex County (1)
- Veterans Administration (4 + 1 neg.)
Edison
- Edison Lodge Convalescent and Nursing Home (1)
Edison Township
- Camp Kilmer (1)

Egg Harbor City
- Dr. Smith's Sanitarium (3)
Elizabeth
- Alexian Brother's Hospital (3)
- Elizabeth General Hospital (5)
- St. Elizabeth's Hospital (4)
Elmer
- Elmer Community Hospital (3)

Englewood
- Englewood Hospital (4)
F

Far Hills
- Kate Macy Ladd Convalescent Home (14)

Farmingdale
- Preventorium for Children (6 + 1 neg.; 1 is a double-fold)
Flemington
- Hunterdon Medical Center (2)
Fort Dix SEE Wrightstown
Fort Monmouth
- Ft. Monmouth Hospital (2)
- Ft. Monmouth Post Hospital (1)
- Paterson Army Hospital SEE Ft. Monmouth Hospital
G

Glen Gardner
- Little Brook Nursing and Convalescent Home (1)
- New Jersey Sanitorium for Tuberculosis Diseases (18 + 1 neg.)

Glen Ridge SEE Montclair
Greenbrook
- Greenbrook Manor Nursing Home (1)
H

Hackensack
- Hackensack Hospital (4)
Hammonton
- Hammonton Emergency Hospital (1)
- New Jersey State Hospital at Ancora (1)
High Point Park
- High Point Park Camp for the Blind (1)
Hoboken
- St. Mary's Hospital (2)
- U.S. Army Embarkation Hospital, No. 1 (3)

Hopewell Township
- Cumberland County Asylum (1)
I, J, K
Irvington
- Irvington General Hospital (3)
Jamesburg
- J. L. Disney Sanatorium (1)

Jersey City
- Christ Hospital (5)
- Harry Moore School for Crippled Children (1)
- Jersey City Hospital (3 + 1 neg.)
- Jersey City Medical Center (4)
- St. Francis Hospital (1)
- St. Joseph's Home for the Blind (1)
Kearny
- Home for Disabled Soldiers (2)
L

Lakeland
- Camden County Psychiatric Hospital (1)
- [C. Co.] Farms Hospital (1)
- Tuberculosis Hospital (2)

Lakewood
- Lakewood General Hospital (1)
- Lakewood Tuberculosis Preventorium SEE Preventorium for Children, Farmingdale
- Paul Kimball Hospital (2)
- Paul Kimball Memorial Hospital (1)
- U. S. Army General Hospital, No. 9 (14)
- U. S. Government Hospital, No. 9 SEE U. S. Army General Hospital, No. 9
Lawrenceville
- St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center (2 - Oversized)
- U.S. Army Convalescent Hospital, No. 1 (1)
Leonardo
- Camp Happiness: NJ Blind Men's Club Vacation Home (1)
Linwood
- Linwood Convalescent Center (1)
Livingston
- St. Barnabus Medical Center (1) SEE ALSO Newark
Long Branch
- Monmouth County Hospital (1)
- Monmouth Medical Center SEE Monmouth Memorial Hospital
- Monmouth Memorial Hospital (5 + 1 neg.)
Longport
- Betty Bacharach Home for Afflicted Children (1)
Lyons
- Veterans Administration Hospital (4)
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Health Care Facilities by location:
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M-N
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Q-S
T-V
W-Z
Health Care Facilities by name:
Commercial Businesses and Institutions
Miscellaneous
Processed By:
Sarah Hull
June 1998; Revised: October 2005
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Special Collections
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