William Wirt Winchester Hospital
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title: YNHH: Winchester Chest Clinic history
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Sarah Winchester gift and tuberculosis-care legacy.
url: https://www.ynhh.org/services/respiratory-care/winchester-chest-clinic
credit: YNHH: Winchester Chest Clinic history
notes: Linked source. The collection provides an original historical summary; the complete record remains with its repository.
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id: ED085-S02
title: Yale: Winchester Hospital entrance
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Circa 1920 view reproduced in a 1926 centenary publication.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/2133/
credit: Yale: Winchester Hospital entrance
notes: Linked source. The collection provides an original historical summary; the complete record remains with its repository.
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id: ED085-S03
title: Yale: Veterans’ Administration purchase, 1948
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Repository reproduces June 15, 1948 caption on $600,000 transfer.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/2092/
credit: Yale: Veterans’ Administration purchase, 1948
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id: ED085-S04
title: New Haven Hospital annual report, 1919
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: The 1919 hospital history includes campus photographs, staff portraits and a diary of the Army hospital’s organization and wartime operation.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_annual_reports/58/
credit: New Haven Hospital annual report, 1919
notes: Linked source. The collection provides an original historical summary; the complete record remains with its repository.
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id: ED-H-HT14
title: Veterans' Administration purchases William Wirt Winchester Hospital property, 1948 (Bishop Collection)
kind: Photographs
date: 1948; published June 15, 1948
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: A June 1948 newspaper photograph documents the transfer of the hospital property to the Veterans' Administration for $600,000.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/2092/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Catalog transcribes New Haven Register caption. Transaction was in West Haven Town Clerk's office on the afternoon before publication; June 14 is inferred. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED-H-HT15
title: William Wirt Winchester Hospital, c. 1920
kind: Photographs
date: c. 1920; reproduced 1926
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: The Winchester Hospital entrance around 1920 records a West Haven institution associated with tuberculosis care.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_photos/2133/
credit: Unknown / Yale University Library, EliScholar, Yale New Haven Hospital Photographs
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Source identified as General Hospital Society of Connecticut Centenary, 1926. Keep capture date separate from publication. Reuse: rights review required; Catalog names Yale-New Haven Hospital and warns copyright or other rights terms may apply; no open license provided.
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id: ED085-P12
title: Winchester Hospital across the grounds
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: The main hospital appears beyond its open grounds. The 1919 history describes the Army hospital occupying the William Wirt Winchester memorial buildings. A place associated with tuberculosis care became part of the wartime medical system.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 12. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P17
title: Officers and students, November 1918
kind: Photographs
date: November 1918; published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Commanding officers, staff and student officers assembled outside the hospital in November 1918. The Armistice month found the medical institution still at work. This seated group portrait records some of the people serving and training there.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 17. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P25
title: A second officers’ portrait, November 1918
kind: Photographs
date: November 1918; published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Another November 1918 photograph shows commanding officers, staff and student officers standing before the hospital. The uniforms and crowded rows make visible the scale of the medical community; the original caption does not identify each individual.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 25. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P31
title: Alexius M. Forster, commanding officer
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Lieutenant Colonel Alexius M. Forster helped organize the hospital in 1918. The caption dates his command from March 1 to September 14 that year, placing this portrait in the hospital’s first months of Army operation.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 31. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P37
title: Estes Nichols, the next commanding officer
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: The 1919 book identifies Lieutenant Colonel Estes Nichols as the hospital’s commanding officer at the time of publication. His portrait forms a counterpart to that of Forster, who led the initial organization.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 37. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P43
title: The hospital from the south
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: This southern view shows the main hospital buildings and open ground around them. The long façades, verandas and connecting structures give a sense of the setting in which patients and staff spent their days. Compare it with the northern view to follow the campus around.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 43. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P49
title: The hospital from the west
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Tents stand in a row beside the hospital’s brick buildings in this western view. Cars, exterior stairways and covered connections show everyday movement through the site. The original caption identifies the view but does not assign a use to each tent.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 49. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P57
title: Red Cross House and the YMCA hut
kind: Photographs
date: Published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Two photographs show the Red Cross House and YMCA hut. These spaces placed hospitality, recreation and personal contact alongside medical care. The hospital diary also records Red Cross houses being pressed into service as emergency influenza wards in October 1918.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 57. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-P63
title: Officers and students, March 1919
kind: Photographs
date: March 1919; published 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: A March 1919 group portrait follows the November photographs across the winter after the Armistice. The caption again identifies commanding officers, staff and student officers. It is a reminder that the work of caring for servicemen continued after the fighting ended.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: History and Roster of the United States Army General Hospital No. 16 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), scan page 63. Internet Archive / Library of Congress.
notes: Public domain in the United States: published 1919. Complete scan page reproduced; sideways plates rotated for reading. Publication date is not an exact exposure date.
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id: ED085-S05
title: History and Roster of U.S. Army General Hospital No. 16, 1919
kind: Historical publications
date: 1919
institution: William Wirt Winchester Hospital
summary: Contemporary history, campus photographs, officers’ portraits and diary of the Army hospital in the Winchester memorial buildings.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82041098/
credit: Yale University Press, 1919; Library of Congress
notes: Public domain in the United States. The linked catalog provides the full digitized publication.
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