Eleanor K. Grimm Resources

E.K.Grimm ACS History Notebooks

This archival description describes and inventories the great contribution and accomplishment of Miss Grimm in creating the 26-volume typescript of her recollections of American College of Surgeons (ACS) history, in preparation for the semi-centennial of the College in 1963. She was commissioned by the Board of Regents to do this work in 1953, two years after her retirement from the ACS, and she completed the task in December 1957.

E.K. Grimm Personal Papers

This archival description itemizes the Personal Papers of Eleanor Grimm, donated to the ACS Archives by her family between 2008 and 2010. The contents of Boxes 2, 3, and 4, as listed in the archival description, contain her retirement scrapbooks which are here available in PDF format. Each of the three scrapbooks, full of images and personal correspondence with many of the founders and leaders of the ACS from 1913 into the 1950s, has been divided into roughly 50-page segments. The archival description serves as an itemized list of all her correspondents and is searchable.

Scrapbook 1, page 1-55, Joy of Living images, ACS staff and miscellaneous

Scrapbook 1, page 56-110, Tarnowsky & Martin to Allen, Arthur

Scrapbook 1, page 111-175, Balfour to Borne

Scrapbook 1, page 176-246, Bowman, John (incl. Martin Bowman corres.)

Scrapbook 1, page 247-303, Bruce to Coller

Scrapbook 2, page 1-26, Coller to Corrigan

Scrapbook 2, page 27-124, Crile, George

Scrapbook 2, page 125-166, Crowell to Estes

Scrapbook 2, page 167-219, Foss to Gillies

Scrapbook 2, page 220-275, Graham, Evarts (incl. Blalock)

Scrapbook 2, page 276-327, Grayson to Herrera Vegas

Scrapbook 2, page 328-357, Higgins to Kahlke