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| Title: | Warner, Nancy E. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1930-1956 |
| Size: | 1 linear foot (2 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Nancy E. Warner (1923- ) is a graduate of the College at the University of Chicago and an early woman graduate of the Medical School, graduating in 1949. In 1972, at the University of Southern California, she became the first woman in the United States to chair a department of pathology. This collection contains class notes, photographs, and miscellaneous personal materials, largely from her time spent at the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1956. |
This collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Warner, Nancy E. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Dr. Nancy E. Warner, M.D. was born in Dixon, Illinois in 1923. She earned her S.B. from the College of the University of Chicago in 1944 and her M.D. from the School of Medicine in 1949. She did her residency at the University of Chicago from 1950 to 1954.
Warner stayed at the University of Chicago, working in the Biostatistics Lab until 1956, when she moved to Los Angeles to work at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital until 1957, returning shortly thereafter to the University of Chicago to work as Chief Surgical Pathologist. In 1965, she returned to Los Angeles to work again at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for eighteen months before accepting a position at the medical school at University of Washington in Seattle. In 1967, she returned once again to Los Angeles upon accepting a position at the University of Southern California, where she would spend the rest of her career.
After winning several teaching awards at USC, in 1972 Warner was the first woman in the United States to be appointed chair of Pathology at a coeducational medical school, a position which she held until 1983. She worked full time at USC and at the USC Norris Cancer Hospital until her retirement in 1991, but continued teaching undergraduate courses in pathology and participating in research, teaching, and service activities of the Department of Surgical Pathology at the Norris Hospital in the following years.
Warner is the author of a textbook, Basic Endocrine Pathology (Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1971), and, in 1984, she was an Eleanor Humphreys Visiting Surgical Pathologist at the University of Chicago, giving a talk entitled “Highlights of Endocrine Pathology.”
The bulk of the materials in this collection range from 1945 to 1956. The collection includes extensive class notes, a casebook from an early internship at the Dixon State Hospital, a group photo of the School of Medicine’s graduating class of 1949, as well as personal memorabilia and ephemera accompanied with Warner’s own notes and recollections of her time in medical school and time working afterwards, including of her and her life partner’s first apartment together.
The Nancy E. Warner Papers are organized into three series: Series I, Personal; Series II, University of Chicago; and Series III, Audio-Visual.
Series I, Personal, includes various personal effects, memorabilia, and readings. Materials are arranged chronologically.
Series II, University of Chicago, includes notes, articles, and research documents from Warner’s time at the University of Chicago, ranging from her time in medical school to the years immediately following her residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Materials are arranged chronologically.
Series III, Audio-Visual, contains photographs from Warner’s time at the University of Chicago and in Los Angeles, arranged chronologically.
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Series I: Personal |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Articles, Pamphlets, Government Publications, 1930-1956 |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Ephemera, circa 1942-1956
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| Box 1 Folder 3 | First Trip to Europe – Itinerary, airline baggage check and passenger tickets, immunization information booklet, August 1954 |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Miami Trip – registration card for American Medical Association meeting in Miami, FL, tourist booklet on Charleston, SC's architecture, 1954 |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Publications – "Know Your Communist Enemy," Telecomputing Corporation 1956 annual report, April 19, 1956 issue of The Reporter, materials from world film premiere of Anastasia, "The Pathologist" (clipped magazine article), clipping from JAMA, 1954-1956 |
Series II: University of Chicago |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Pathology 301 Lecture Notes [1/2], 1946 |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Pathology 301 Lecture Notes [2/2], 1946 |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Pharmacology Notes, Winter 1946 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Noon Lectures, Notes, Summer 1947 |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Lectures, Notes, Winter 1947 |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Dixon State Hospital Casebook, April-June 1947 |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Medical School Lecture Notes, 1947-1949 |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Henry Warner Correspondence with Graduation Announcement Clipping (photocopy), 1949 |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | University of Chicago Two Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Convocation (announcement card and photocopied program), 1949 |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | University of Chicago Residency, 1950-1954 |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Scientific Notes and Publications, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Stationary, circa 1954-1956 |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | Biostatistics Lab, 1955-1956 |
Series III: Audio-Visual |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | Class of 1949 Group Photo, University of Chicago Medical School, Fall 1945 |
| Box 2 Folder 11 | Graduation Day Photo, 1949 |
| Box 2 Folder 12 | Photos (photocopied) of Nan Warner, her partner Chris Reynolds, her parents, and her uncle in Los Angeles, with LA Times clippings, 1954. |