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Sub-series Pediatrics - Records of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children

Description

Key

111635

Dates

circa 1878-1975; 2004-2015, inclusive

Creator

Corporate name, Harriet Lane Home (Baltimore, Md.)

Administrative/Biographical History

By her last will, Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, of Washington, D.C., left a sum of over 400,000 to establish in Baltimore the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children as a memorial to two sons who had died in childhood. Harriet Lane, the niece of President James Buchanan, was the First Lady of the White House during the Buchanan administration. She married Henry Johnston, a Baltimore banker, who had bequested in his will that a sum of 400,000 be held in reserve and that upon her death it be used to establish a home for invalid children.
In 1906 the Trustees of the Harriet Lane House decided to build the Home at the Johns Hopkins Hospital with the Hospital supplying the land and agreeing to furnish the necessary medical staff and nursing force. In 1909 construction began with Viennese pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet overseeing the operation. In 1912 John Howland succeeded Pirquet as Professor of Pediatrics of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and as Pediatrician-in-Chief of the Harriet Lane Home.
In October 1912 the Harriet Lane Home officially opened its doors. It was the first childrens clinic in the United States that was associated with a medical school. Eventually treating over 60,000 children a year, the Harriet Lane Home became a pioneer treatment, teaching, training and research clinic. From 1930 to 1963 Helen Taussig, who helped to develop the blue baby operation, headed the pediatric cardiac clinic. Child psychiatrist Leo Kanner did studies of autistic children. Lawson Wilkins established an endocrine clinic that developed procedures used universally to treat children with certain glandular disorders, including dwarfism. John E. Bordley and William G. Hardy broke ground in detecting hearing impairments in very young children. Above all John Howland and Edwards A. Park, who directed the Home from 1927-1946, allowed the many specialty clinics to flourish and train pediatricians who became prominent throughout the country.
In 1972 the Harriet Lane Home closed giving way to the modern Edwards A. Park Building. The Harriet Lane Home building itself was demolished in 1974.

Scope and Content

Few of the administrative records of the Harriet Lane Home have survived, particularly from the early years. Much of the early correspondence was destroyed in an effort to conserve filing cabinet space.
Most of this collection comes from the files of Edwards A. Park, who wrote articles on the history of the Home. It represents material which Park collected while doing his research. There are some administrative minutes, a couple of patient log books, biographical material on Harriet Lane Johnston, and notes, manuscripts and correspondence of Park concerning the Home.

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

1980

Processing Information

The records of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children were initially organized by Ruth Anne Becker in 1980 under a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC grant 1979-119).

Accession

2019-051

2016-054

2009-011

2008-048

2006-073

2006-032

1980-027

Composed Of

Found 5 record(s)

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1- Founding & Governing Documents & Early Records	49162	circa 1878-1909; 1934; 1949; 1956-1971	Sub-sub-series	CollectionJHH- Records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital > Record group/Fonds09- Departments, Clinics, Centers & Institutes > SeriesPediatrics - Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children/ Johns Hopkins Children's Center > Sub-seriesPediatrics - Records of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children
2- Records of Governing and Administrative Bodies	49163	2008-2015, 1971, 1903-1969	Sub-sub-series	CollectionJHH- Records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital > Record group/Fonds09- Departments, Clinics, Centers & Institutes > SeriesPediatrics - Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children/ Johns Hopkins Children's Center > Sub-seriesPediatrics - Records of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children
3- Patient Related Records	49164	1950-1951, 1939-1941	Sub-sub-series	CollectionJHH- Records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital > Record group/Fonds09- Departments, Clinics, Centers & Institutes > SeriesPediatrics - Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children/ Johns Hopkins Children's Center > Sub-seriesPediatrics - Records of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children
4- Materials Compiled for Histories of the Harriet Lane Home	49165		Sub-sub-series	CollectionJHH- Records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital > Record group/Fonds09- Departments, Clinics, Centers & Institutes > SeriesPediatrics - Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children/ Johns Hopkins Children's Center > Sub-seriesPediatrics - Records of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children
5- Publications	295483		Sub-sub-series	CollectionJHH- Records of The Johns Hopkins Hospital > Record group/Fonds09- Departments, Clinics, Centers & Institutes > SeriesPediatrics - Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children/ Johns Hopkins Children's Center > Sub-seriesPediatrics - Records of the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children

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