The Elizabeth W. Sherwood Collection emphasizes her work in nursing administration and surgery. It includes materials related to early television broadcasts from the general operating rooms at Johns Hopkins. The materials document the 1947 broadcast of Alfred Blalock demonstrating the life-saving procedure he devised, commonly known as the "blue baby" operation. There are also materials related to a similar color television transmission two years later at Johns Hopkins, which is identified as being the first medical program transmitted between two cities. The materials include clippings, programs, and scripts related to this Johns Hopkins broadcast from Baltimore to the clinical sessions of the American Medical Association, in Washington, D.C., in 1949. The Sherwood papers also contain correspondence (1939-1941) with the American Red Cross regarding the production of war-time surgical dressings and an album of letters and photographs presented as a retirement gift from the surgeons she assisted during her years at Johns Hopkins. Also included are her nursing diploma and New York State nursing certificate.