Virginia Apgar with Joan Beck and March of Dimes child
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar with Joan Beck and March of Dimes child
Description:
Though quite ill by the summer of 1974, Apgar did not retire from her job at the National Foundation, but continued to attend NF events. At an event in June, she and Joan Beck (who co-authored Is My Baby All Right? with Apgar) posed with one of the March of Dimes children.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1974-06
Genre:
photographs
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Joan Dunkelberger
Main Title:
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Joan Dunkelberger
Description:
Letter of concern to Dr. Apgar regarding the effects of microwave ovens on pregnant women
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1973-06-14
Genre:
correspondence
Letter from Mary Cawthon to Virginia Apgar
Main Title:
Letter from Mary Cawthon to Virginia Apgar
Description:
Letter to Dr. Apgar about a still birth child and the probability of it happening again.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1973-03-22
Genre:
correspondence
Letter from L. Joseph Butterfield to Virginia Apgar
Main Title:
Letter from L. Joseph Butterfield to Virginia Apgar
Description:
Butterfield and his residents at the University of Colorado Medical Center modified the order and wording of the Apgar score's five points, so that they spelled APGAR. This epigram form proved a useful teaching device, and Butterfield passed it along to Apgar. By the late 1960s it had become the standard for Apgar score forms.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1961-07-27
Genre:
correspondence
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons class of 1933
Main Title:
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons class of 1933
Description:
Apgar, one of nine women in a medical school class of 90, is in the top row, second from left.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
ca. 1933
Genre:
photographs
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Allen O. Whipple
Main Title:
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Allen O. Whipple
Description:
In 1937, after nearly a year's residency training in anesthesiology, Apgar was invited back to Columbia-Presbyterian (where she had done her surgery internship) to set up and head a new division of anesthesia there. In this letter, she outlined her plan for the division to Whipple, director of the department of surgery.; NOTE: Handwritten text at top of first page illegible in original.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1937-11-29
Genre:
correspondence
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Paul A. Harper
Main Title:
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Paul A. Harper
Description:
Sent in response to Harper's request for seminar outlines, this letter included the outlines, which demonstrate how Apgar conceptualized delivery-room problems after several decades' experience with them, and an essay, The Perinatal Problem, in which she discussed the need for a national medical education program in the emerging field of neonatology.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1958-03-24
Genre:
correspondence
Virginia Apgar with Mount Holyoke College orchestra members
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar with Mount Holyoke College orchestra members
Description:
Apgar (front left) with other members of the orchestra at Mount Holyoke College.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
ca. 1928
Genre:
photographs
Virginia Apgar
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar
Description:
Photograph of Dr. Virginia Apgar - lecturing on resuscitation, ca. 1964
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
ca. 1964
Genre:
photographs
Virginia Apgar with her brother Lawrence
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar with her brother Lawrence
Description:
Apgar at about age 3, with her older brother Lawrence, who was her only sibling.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
ca. 1912
Genre:
photographs
Virginia Apgar in Salt Lake City
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar in Salt Lake City
Description:
Candid snapshot of Apgar taking a break outdoors during a course in medical genetics at the University of Utah. In the course of her work for the National Foundation, Apgar kept up with developments in genetics research, especially as they related to birth defects and congenital diseases.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1960
Genre:
photographs
Virginia Apgar with a viola she was building
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar with a viola she was building
Description:
A conversation with a patient, Carleen Hutchins, led Apgar to the hobby of instrument-building in the 1950s. She eventually completed several instruments, which are now housed at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
ca. 1958
Genre:
photographs
Fifth Annual Report, Division of Anesthesia: 1942
Main Title:
Fifth Annual Report, Division of Anesthesia: 1942
Description:
Apgar reported on the teaching, clinical, and research activities of the Division of Anesthesia at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital during 1942. She noted the great increase in anesthesias given by medical staff (over 1700 more cases than in the previous year) and the ongoing staffing shortages (especially with many medical personnel enlisting in the military after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941). She suggested that senior dental students and surgical graduates could be added to the program to alleviate the staff problems.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1943-02-15
Genre:
reports
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Mary Cawthon
Main Title:
Letter from Virginia Apgar to Mary Cawthon
Description:
Response from Dr. Apgar to Mary Cawthon regarding her resent still birth.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1973-05-07
Genre:
correspondence
Aqualumni
Main Title:
Aqualumni
Description:
The anesthesiology residents who trained with Ralph Waters at the University of Wisconsin in 1937 dubbed themselves the Aqualumni and agreed to meet annually. They did this for 13 years. In this photo, Apgar is in the back row, second from left. Ralph Waters is in the front row, center.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1938
Genre:
photographs
Virginia Apgar appearing on Los Angeles station KLAC
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar appearing on Los Angeles station KLAC
Description:
As part of her work for the National Foundation, Apgar participated in interviews and discussions on television shows. She is shown here with Sam Benson, Public Service Director for station KLAC in Los Angeles.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1964-01
Genre:
photographs
Apgar scoring form and clipboard
Main Title:
Apgar scoring form and clipboard
Description:
During the 1960s, Resuscitation Laboratories manufactured standard scoring forms for recording Apgar scores, and clipboards with built-in timers, for hospital use.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1970-10
Genre:
photographs
Constitution of the Aqualumni
Main Title:
Constitution of the Aqualumni
Description:
The first cohort of physicians who trained in anesthesiology with Dr. Ralph Waters organized a group dedicated to maintaining Waters' high standards of research, teaching and practice, and supporting each other as they established new specialty programs in the field. Apgar was elected a member in April 1938, under the original rule that six months of residency with Waters was sufficient qualification, if the resident continued to practice anesthesiology. The qualifications for membership were changed shortly afterwards, requiring two years of a three-year residency. Apgar was an active member of the group, which met annually in Madison, Wisconsin until Waters retired in 1947.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1942-04-06
Genre:
constitutions
Virginia Apgar at age 10
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar at age 10
Description:
School portrait.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
ca. 1919
Genre:
photographs
Virginia Apgar on first day of high school
Main Title:
Virginia Apgar on first day of high school
Description:
Virginia standing in front of school building, holding a satchel.
Collection:
Virginia Apgar Papers
Date Created:
1921-09
Genre:
photographs

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