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  • Branstock_tc.jpg

    Advertisement for The Branstock found within "The Craftsman" journal. In 1907 Enid Bland Yandell founded Branstock, a summer art school that taught a variety of classes.
  • Enid_p08.jpg

    A page from Enid Bland Yandell's early career scrapbook. Enid actively documented her career by clipping articles that related to her and other women sculptors. This page shows a Courier-Journal article, "Miss Yandell's Work in Paris" (1896). The article also includes an image of a statuette of Miss Elsie Yandell, and an image of Enid at work in her Paris studio
  • Enid_p51.jpg

    Page of Enid Bland Yandell's early career scrapbook. Enid actively documented her career by clipping articles that related to her our other women sculptors. This page shows a Louisville Times article, "Miss Enid Yandell and her work" (Tuesday Evening, October 20, 1891).
  • Enid_PrivateViewing_vol. 94.jpg

    Page of Enid Bland Yandell's early career scrapbook. Enid actively documented her career by clipping articles that related to her and other sculptors works. This page shows a business card Enid created for a private viewing at her studio at 315 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY.
  • yandell, enid_appui aux artistes menu_A_Y21b_64.jpg

    Appui Aux Artistes (Aid for Artists) pamphlet. Established by Enid Bland Yandell and four other women in August 1914. Appui Aux Artistes provided affordable meals for those involved in the arts and their families. Appui used American contacts to raise money for the organization.
  • 1914 demonstration doll_BF_J59_301.jpg

    In this letter to the Jewish Hospital board president Samuel Hess, Gussie Newberger outlines how the Jewish Ladies Benevolent Society No. 1 wants its donations to the hospital to be used. She explains that the society would like $65 spent on a “Demonstrator” doll for medical training, “in order to protect the Charity Patients from Fright [and] Exposure” from being used as learning material for medical or nursing students.

    Through donations and volunteer work, the Jewish Ladies Benevolent Society No. 1 contributed to the mission, maintenance, and growth of Jewish Hospital. The Jewish Welfare Federation and the National Council of Jewish Women Louisville Section also gave critical support to the hospital.
  • 1919 Bernheim Memorial Hosp_BF_J59_296.jpg

    In January 1918, distillers and philanthropists Bernard and Isaac Bernheim contributed $100,000 for an addition to the Jewish Hospital. One of the conditions attached to the brothers’ donation was their request to rename the hospital Bernheim Memorial Hospital in memory of their parents. The blank hospital bill with the “Bernheim Memorial Hospital” letterhead is a remnant of the board’s initial acceptance of the donation with its conditions.
  • 1918 Bernheim letter 1_BF_J59_297.jpg

    Letter from Bernard Bernheim to the Board of Directors of Jewish Hospital responding to a decision to keep the Jewish Hospital name. Bernheim contributed $100,000 for an addition to Jewish Hospital on the condition that they rename the hospital Bernheim Memorial Hospital in memory of his parents.
  • 1918 board resolution_BF_J59_297.jpg

    Board resolution to keep the name Jewish Hospital. After the Bernheims informed the board in December that Jewish Hospital could keep their donation without renaming the hospital, the board passed this resolution accepting the gift from the Bernheims and praising them for sacrificing their desire to rename the hospital in honor of their parents.
  • 1954 annual report cover_BF_J59_76.jpg

    Cover of the 1954 Annual Report, the Jewish Hospital Association of Louisville, KY
  • 1955 uniongram_BF_J59_75.jpg

    Congratulatory telegram sent from the Brith Sholom Sisterhood to board president E. M. Bottigheimer for the cornerstone laying on September 13, 1953.
  • 1967 Oct. Service Berg_BF_J59_208.jpg

    "Our Mosaic Making Doctor." Article featuring Harold Berg for the Jewish Hospital Publication "Service."
  • 1926 news article 1.jpg

    News clippings from the 75th Anniversary scrapbook describing efforts to avoid closing the Jewish Hospital
  • 1932 hospital rates_BF_J59_308 - Copy.jpg

    Rates of service at Jewish Hospital.
  • 1946 under microscope 1_BF_J59_291.jpg

    In June 1946 Jewish Hospital launched a fundraising drive for a new hospital. Images in the fundraising pamphlet contrasted the overcrowded wards and outdated equipment of the current Jewish Hospital with the modern facilities that a new institution would offer. The drive reached its goal of $750,000 in just over a month.

    In drawing attention to the cramped conditions of Jewish Hospital in the 1940s, the pamphlet also provides a view of the racial segregation of its staff. In these images, the laboratory technicians are all white women, and the laundry workers are all African American women
  • 1955 future pamphlet city within a city_BF_J59_4.jpg

    This graphic and text are from a Jewish Hospital expansion fund pamphlet. Provides examples of the amount of labor needed to run a hospital.
  • 1967 surgical techs color_BF_J59_143.jpg

    Image from the Jewish Hospital periodical Micro Scoop of surgical technicians in training.
  • 1970 Bessie Bowman_BF_J59_177.jpg

    Article from the Jewish Hospital periodical Micro Scoop, featuring longtime employee Bessie Bowman. Bowman worked in the laundry department and was employee-of-the-month.
  • 1970 holiday party_BF_J59_177.jpg

    Article featuring a Jewish Hospital employee holiday party from the periodical Micro Scoop.
  • 1974 benefits 1_BF_J59_207.jpg

    A pamphlet outlining Jewish Hospital employee benefits.
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