St. Vincent Hospital (Sante Fe, N.M.)

Scope and Content Collection consists of a typed manuscript on the history of St. Vincent Hospital, in Santa Fe. It was written by Marcus J. Smith, M.D., under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities during 1978 and 1979. It begins with the arrival of Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, who requested that nuns from the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati be sent to Santa Fe to establish a hospital. The history covers the establishment and growth of the hospital during the late nineteenth century as a a...

Scope and Content The collection contains sporadic reports (including detailed patients and orphans lists), fiscal statements, sample statements from the I.H. and W.M. Rapp’s architectural firm, and newspaper clippings. Collection also contains secondary historical information and a nearly complete run of the hospital’s newsletter “The Vincentian News” and “The Vincentian.”