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1850-2000 (Creation)
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ca. 3000 photographs
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Administrative history
Kingston General Hospital has been designated by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board to be of national historic significance as one of the longest continuously operating hospitals in Canada. The collection documents the transition of the hospital from a charitable institution to an active treatment hospital to a tertiary care institution in the Southeastern Ontario Health Sciences Centre. Kingston General Hospital is also historically significant for it's role as a temporary Parliament Building for the capital of the United Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada from 1841-1843.
Custodial history
The photographs in the Kingston General Hospital photograph collection have been acquired from a number of different sources. Within the institution, the bulk of the collection seems to have come from the Public Relations Office, which was responsible for a number of institutional publications such as The General Hospital Bulletin, KGH News, Spectrum and Pulse. Other photographs seem to have been commissioned by the hospital administration to appear in K.G.H. annual reports throughout the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Other portions of the collection were received from the Kingston General Hospital's Training School for Nurses and the K.G.H. Nurses' Alumnae Association. Several photographs are credited to the Kingston Whig-Standard. The photographs were transferred to the Kingston General Hospital Archives located at Queen's University Archives as part of the original transfers to Queen's University Archives between 1979 and 1983 (in addition to more recent transfers) as part of the Administrative Records Management and Archives Program (ARMAP).
Scope and content
The collection consists of over 3,000 still photographs. The bulk of the collection are black and white prints. There is a small percentage of colour prints, slides, negatives and hand tinted colour postcards that date from about 1900 to 1920. (One of which is a single-back postcard predating 1904). There are three photographic albums; the earliest dates from 1928. The images depict interior and exterior views, construction and renovations of the hospital. The collection is a rich visual resource featuring staff, volunteers and patients in a number of hospital activities and events over the last 100 years. Hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, and students are also depicted throughout the collection. Also included are a small amount of textual records, newspaper and magazine clippings, some correspondence, charts and scrapbooks and a small number of architectural drawings. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Board of Governors Buildings Centennial display charts Chaplains Commissioners' pictures Doctors and Interns Equipment Graduations Hospital activities Miscellaneous photographs Nurses Patients Plaques, certificates, awards etc. Staff Volunteer services Scrapbooks and albums
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Restrictions on access
Open to researchers subject to the requirements of the Hospital’s Administrative Health Research Policy and Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA).
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Copyright provisions and access conditions may apply. Please contact a Hospital Archivist.
Finding aids
Finding aid available upon request.
Associated materials
Accruals
Further accruals are expected.
General note
A great number of the photographs seem to have come from private collections, and for the most part there is no record of who the individual photographers were.