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The fonds is arranged into 27 series:

TW 1. Board of Governors/Board of Trustees records
TW 2. Office of The Superintendent records
TW 3. Medical Staff records
TW 4. Department of Nursing records
TW 5. School of Nursing records
TW 6. Toronto Western Hospital Auxiliary records
TW 7. Grace Hospital records
TW 8. Personnel records
TW 9. Publications
TW 10. Internal Committee files
TW 11. Photographs
TW 12. Building Campaign records
TW 13. Architectural plans and drawings
TW 14. Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gullen papers
TW 15. Dr. Lionel T. Armstrong papers
TW 16. Arthur J. Swanson papers
TW 17. Dr. G. Harvey Agnew papers
TW 18. Department of Radiology records
TW 19. Department of Medicine records
TW 20. Dietary/ Food Services Department records
TW 21. Department of Anaesthesia records
TW 22. Department of Pathology research study
TW 23. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine photographs
TW 24. Department of Obstetrics And Gynecology Annual Report
TW 25. Research Office reports
TW 26. Miscellaneous records on the hospital’s history
TW 27. Department of Finance records

This sub-series consists of annual reports prepared by the TWH/Atkinson School of Nursing and submitted to:

i. Ontario Department of Health. Inspector of Training Schools - Nurse Registration Branch. "Training School Report" (1931-38)
ii. Ontario Department of Health. Nurse Registration Branch. "School of Nursing Report" (1939-47)
iii. Ontario Department of Health. Director, Division of Nurses Registration. (1948-51)
iv. Ontario Department of Health. Director, Nursing Branch. (1952-63)
v. Director, College of Nurses of Ontario. (1964-73)
Calendar-year reports were prepared 1931-1959, and September-August reports 1960-1973. The sub-series is missing reports for 1946 and September 1970-August 1971.

Reports include names, education and professional history, and professional responsibilities of School of Nursing administrators, faculty and staff; a statistical summary of services provided by the Hospital (number of beds, patients, and medical procedures performed); information about the School's facilities, students (number, entrance requirements, education and training duties), curriculum, and affiliation with other educational and healthcare institutions.

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous general administrative files created or maintained by the TWH/Atkinson School of Nursing and pertaining to the day-to-day operation of the School. There are gaps in the records for some of the files:
• Graduation programs (File TW 5-3-3) are missing for 1920-27, 1929-31, 1933-36, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1950, 1953-58, 1960.
• File 5-33-22 only contains minutes of the Charting Committee from 1949, 1952, 1959, 1961, 1965, and 1967.
• Programs for “Whites in Review” (File TW 5-3-24) are missing for 1958, 1960, and 1962-66.

File TW 5-3-4 includes an address to convocation by Robertson Davies from 1965. File TW 5-3-25 contains the publications Half a Century of Nursing at the TWH [1948?] and The Nurses Alumnae Association of the TWH: Diamond Jubilee 1898-1988 [1988]. Both pamphlets contain histories of the TWH and Grace Hospital Schools of Nursing

This sub-series consists of financial records created by or for the Auxiliary, including account books, Treasurer's papers and reports, auditors' reports, bank records and annual financial statements. Financial records of the Auxiliary Gift Shop are maintained separately in sub-series 6-3.

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous photographs depicting Auxiliary members, activities and facilities (primarily the Gift Shop).

This sub-series consists of a report book created and maintained by the TWH Auxiliary House Committee and containing a summary of Committee activities, accounts, minutes of meetings, and reports to the Auxiliary executive and general membership.

This sub-series consists an accounts journal and correspondence created or maintained by the Treasurer of Grace Hospital. Correspondence is only for a single year, 1902, and relates to the fees for public ward patients.

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous photographs of Grace Hospital staff, students, facilities and buildings.

This series consists of personnel records for employees of the TWH who were hired, employed, or left the Hospital's employment between ca. 1919 and 1939. The series is divided into two sub-series reflecting the arrangement of the records maintained by the Hospital:

TW 8-1 Current employee files
TW 8-2 Ex-employee files

Records were arranged alphabetically rather than chronologically, such that each file contains records until ca. 1939. The records themselves consist of file cards containing each employee's name, address, telephone number, date hired and/or date left service, wages, name and address of nearest relative or reference, and notes re: the employee's absences from work. The series includes records for administrative and nursing staff (including A.C. Galbraith, A.J. Swanson, D. McMahon (later Shrimpton), B. Ellis, and E. Wark) but with some few exceptions (mostly interns), does not include records for medical staff.

This sub-series consists of personnel records for “current” employees of the TWH ca. 1919-1939.

This sub-series consists of personnel records for ex-employees of the TWH who began and left the service of the Hospital between ca. 1919 and ca. 1939.

This series consists of various materials published by, for or about the TWH. The series is divided into three sub-series:

TW 9-1 Western Hours
TW 9-2 West Winds
TW 9-3 Special purpose publications

This sub-series consists of copies of the internal TWH publication West Winds (WW). WW was first published in August 1963, by the TWH Personnel Department, under the editorship of Kathleen Wright. WW was initially published as the TWH staff newsletter, in a single-sheet format, with a monthly publication schedule. In 1973 the TWH Public Relations Department was formed and assumed responsibility for publishing WW: Kathleen Wright, now appointed Public Relations Officer, continued as editor. In 1974 WW was expanded to 4 pages, and between November 1981 and August 1984 was published in 4, 6, or 8-page formats. Beginning with the issue for December 1984, WW replaced Western Hours as the TWH's principal public relations publication: it was now published in magazine format, with 4 or 5 issues per year. Kathleen Wright's last issue as editor was for January 1986; Lucie Baistrocchi succeeded her as Public Relations Officer and as WW editor. The last issue surviving in the Archives is for Spring 1989. There are gaps in coverage; some issues are missing.

WW issues of special note include:

1. July 1967 (file TW 9-2-5): Canada Centennial issue
2. December 1968 (file TW 9-2-6): issue honouring M.B. Wallace on his retirement as TWH Executive Director
3. April 1973 (file TW 9-2-11): issue covering legislated transfer of control of funding for hospital nursing schools from the Ontario Ministry of Health to the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities
4. January 1976 (file TW 9-2-14): issue devoted entirely to the history of the Toronto Western Hospital
5. April 1980 (file TW 9-2-18): issue containing obituaries of M.B. Wallace and Grace Paterson, former TWH Director of Nursing
6. January 1986 (file TW 9-2-24): issue devoted to the 90th anniversary of the Hospital
7. Autumn 1986 (file TW 9-2-24): on the opening of the Fraser M. Fell Pavilion
8. Summer 1987 (file TW 9-2-25): contains an article on the history of the TWH Auxiliary

This series consists of records created and maintained by various internal medical and other committees at the TWH. The records are primarily minutes of meetings and predominantly date from 1980 to 1982.

This sub-series consists of group and individual photographs of TWH general staff, including nurses, lab technicians, cleaners, medical and social services departmental staff, and clerical staff.

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous photographs and photographic negatives depicting TWH buildings (exterior and interior) and facilities, 1893-[198?].

This sub-series consists of a photographic exhibit depicting the history of Grace Hospital (1892-1936) and the TWH (1896-1974), compiled 1954-1974 by the TWH Archives and the TWH and Grace Hospital Nurses Alumnae Associations. Photographs had been pasted onto black paper and compiled into 4 large format binders/albums. File titles correspond to the original binder labels.

File TW 11-6-1 contains a series of photographs of Grace Hospital buildings (exterior and interior) and facilities, staff and students [189?]-1936; and photographs of Grace Hospital Training School for Nurses graduating classes 1903-1934. Photographs for the classes of 1904-07, 1910, 1913, and 1926 are missing.

File TW 11-6-2 contains a series of photographs of TWH buildings (exterior and interior) and facilities, staff and students 1896-1952.

Files TW 11-6-3 and TW 11-6-4 contain photographs of TWH/Atkinson School of Nursing graduating classes 1898-1974. Photographs for the classes of 1900, and 1903-07 are missing.

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous photographs illustrating TWH services [193?]-[197?], medical equipment and technology used at TWH [193?]-[198?], and dietetics education at the TWH 1958-59.

This series consists of records relating to various building expansion, renovation and construction programs undertaken by the TWH. Included are correspondence, planning documents, fundraising and promotional materials, financial records, construction specifications and instructions for tenderers, and photographs illustrating on-going and completed construction/ renovation work.

The series is divided into six sub-series, devoted to records associated with each of six successive building campaign programs at the TWH between 1924 and 1969:

TW 12-1 Toronto Western Hospital Campaign 1924 records
TW 12-2 Expansion Programme 1939 records
TW 12-3 Toronto Western Hospital Building Fund 1956-57 records
TW 12-4 Toronto Western Hospital Expansion Program 1958-62 records
TW 12-5 West Block Additions 1965 records
TW 12-6 Toronto Western Hospital Campaign '68 records

This sub-series consists miscellaneous fundraising materials created for the TWH Expansion Programme of 1939.