Joshua Harlan Carey Records

Joshua Harlan Carey Records, 1934-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Joshua Harlan Carey, 1916-1993
Title: Joshua Harlan Carey Records
Dates: 1934-1988 (inclusive)
19341988
Quantity: 7.0 cubic feet
Collection Number: MG365 (collection)
Summary: Correspondence, both personal and professional; papers relating to Dr. Carey's personal interests such as bird watching; items concerning his professional life as a pediatric neurologist; financial records, both personal and professional; and a collection of 16 mm. movie film documenting Dr. Elizabeth Crosby's neurological research using monkeys.
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Joshua Harlan Carey was born May 5, 1916, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the only child of Joshua Harlan and Margaret (Smith) Carey. He died in that city May 6, 1993. Between these dates he travelled and worked in the midwestern, eastern, and southeastern parts of the United States.

Carey received his primary and secondary education in Coeur d'Alene, graduating from Coeur d'Alene High School in 1934. while there he developed a keen interest in nature and especially in biology. He attended Coeur d'Alene Junior College for two year, then transferred to the University of Idaho where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1939; he received his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1944. Following two years in the Philippines and Korea as a member of the U.S. Army Medical Corp., he returned to Chicago where he served consecutive residencies in ophthalmology, pediatrics, and neurology. In 1951 he went to the University of Michigan where, in addition to serving on the neurology faculty he successfully pursued a Ph.D., receiving his degree in 1956, in neuroanatomy, and began a long association with Dr. Elizabeth Crosby.

From 1956 to 1966 he served on the neurology and pediatric faculty at the University of Buffalo, and also set up a private practice in pediatric neurology in nearby Hamburg, New York.

In order to be closer to a research group in comparative neurology formed by Dr. Crosby he moved to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1966, where he joined the University of Alabama School of Medicine in anatomy, pediatrics, and neurology.

The year 1972 saw another move, this time to New Orleans, where he purchased a home on Bourbon St. in the Vieux Carre district, and befriended a wide variety of people, poets and peasants, bankers and bums. He loved the history and art of New Orleans, both sacred and profane.

As he grew older and his energy waned, he spent more time at his cabin on the shores of Priest Lake in Northern Idaho, finally retiring there about 1988. He died quietly in 1993 in a convalescent home in Coeur d'Alene one day after his 77th birthday.

Earl Hamel and Norman Schnitzlein, colleagues at the University of Alabama wrote in a biography of Dr. Carey which they prepared for Anatomical Record, "Joshua Carey did not leave a mark as a great scholar or as a wealthy entrepreneur. The mark that he left is in the hearts of the people he met. As a pediatric neurologist he treated many children with neurologic deficits and helped both them and their parents deal with conditions that otherwise would have been very frustrating. This behavior led him to personal relationships with many families wherein he became known as 'Uncle Josh.' Though he never married he had many children in many families who remember him as being generous to a fault. The care that he gave his patients will be missed but the absence of the sound of the drummer to which he marched will be a great silence to all who knew Josh."

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The papers of Dr. Joshua Harlan Carey span the years 1934 to 1988, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1950 to 1975.

The papers include correspondence, both personal and professional; papers relating to his personal interests; items concerning his professional life as a pediatric neurologist; financial records, both personal and professional; and a collection of 16 mm. movie film documenting Dr. Elizabeth Crosby's neurological research using monkeys.

There are many gaps in each of the series, probably due to Dr. Carey's many moves, and his lack of proper storage facilities.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The material in this Manuscript Group was in no apparent order when received, therefore, a series order was imposed during processing. Some material was loose, other items were in large labeled envelopes or file folders. Dr. Carey's identifications were retained for processing purposes.

The first series contains Joshua Carey's correspondence from 1934 to 1988. It is both personal and professional, and is arranged in one chronological sequence. The personal correspondence is from family and friends, it also has his orders for books and plants. The professional correspondence includes applications for positions, letters to and from colleagues, orders for equipment and supplies and some correspondence concerning patients he was seeing at the request of other doctors.

The second series consists of material relating to Dr. Carey's personal interests, and includes extensive notes on bird watching. Other subjects covered are automobile accidents involving Dr. Carey or his cars, crime reports which also include court transcripts of questions relating to an armed robbery at Dr. Carey's office/home in New Orleans, a journal of his trip to Europe in 1962, information on cities and the homes in which he lived, and his military experiences during the Second World War. He was executor for the estate of artist Mark Martin and these papers include a small amount of Martin's correspondence, his bank statements with paid checks, and samples of his printing.

Professional activities are contained in the third series. Among the items are applications for appointments to hospital medical staffs, memberships in professional organizations, federal controlled substances certificates and state medical licenses, and information on schools for the handicapped and Dr. Carey's work with them. Also included are several books authored by Dr. Elizabeth Crosby which are inscribed to Joshua Carey.

Financial records, both personal and professional, comprise the fourth series. Included are bank statements and paid checks, check registers, loan information, insurance policies, expenses for trips taken, office accounts, and income and property tax forms.

The fifth and final series contains films of Dr. Elizabeth Crosby's neurological experiments on monkeys during the period 1955-1965.

Several types of items were removed from the collection. These include greeting cards without messages, circular letters and announcements of meetings, duplicate articles by Dr. Carey, and articles clipped from magazines--usually the National Geographic.

Also discarded were financial receipts for everyday expenses such as groceries, utilities, supplies, and gas, but receipts for professional/business trips were retained. Paid checks and bank statements were discarded only if the check register covering those checks was available. In all the collection was reduced by seven cubic feet.

Acquisition Information

The papers of pediatric neurologist Dr. Joshua Harlan Carey were donated to the University of Idaho Library by his sister, Mrs. Frances Russell, in July 1993.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Correspondence , 1934-1988Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Correspondence 42 items	1934-1948
1/2	Correspondence 69 items	1952-1957
1/3	Correspondence 83 items	1958-1959
1/4	Correspondence 75 items	1960
1/5	Correspondence 79 items	1961
1/6	Correspondence 59 items	1962
1/7	Correspondence 104 items	1963
1/8	Correspondence 140 items	1964
1/9	Correspondence 39 items	1965-1968
1/10	Correspondence 16 items	1970-1979
1/11	Correspondence 39 items	1980-1988

Series II. Personal , 1934-1988Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/12	Accession book for books purchased 1 item	1937-1939
1/13	Article: Microscope Collection of the Medical Museum Armed Forces Institute of Pathology 1 item	undated
1/14	Automobile accidents 4 items	1983-1985
1/15	Automobile accident 16 items	December 31, 1977
1/16	Automobile accident 16 items	July 5, 1984
1/17	Automobile registrations 11 items	1971-1987
1/18	Birds 2 items	1967
1/19	Bird collecting permits 18 items	1938-1964
1/20	Bird lists 3 items	undated
1/21	Granite Creek, Priest Lake, Idaho 1 item	1967-1968
1/22	Bird watching checklists: Birds of north central U.S. 7 items	1954, 1957
1/23	Bird watching journal 1 item	1933-1936
1/24	Moscow, Idaho 2 items	1937-1938
1/25	Moscow, Idaho 1 item	1939-1944
1/26	Rochester, Minnesota 47 items	March-April 1945
1/27	Camp Callan, California 15 items	May 1945
1/28-29	Camp Callan, California 49 items	1947-1948
1/30	Bird watching notes, Kelso Lake, Bonner Co, Idaho 2 items	1948, 1961
1/31	Bird watching journal 44 items	1948-1951
1/32	Bird watching notes 4 items	1953-1961
1/33	Birds: Hummingbird prints 2 items	ca. 1970
1/34	Pacific Northwest Bird & Mammal Society 4 items	1948-1971
1/35	Pet book no.1 1 item	1934
1/36	Skinning and preparation (booklets) 2 items	1949
1/37	Birds in other collections 3 items	undated
1/38	Birds of Greenland, prospectus 1 item	1949
1/39	Books: Alphabetical listing of Dr. Carey's books 1 item	ca. 1945
1/40	Book lists 3 items	ca. 1962
1/41	Book lists and receipts - Henry Rust's library 6 items	1957-1962
1/42	Periodicals shipped from home 1 item	1960-1961
1/43	Purchases 9 items	1947-1964
1/44	Boston, New York 7 items	1958-1975
1/45	Camping equipment and trip checklists 2 items	ca. 1945
1/46	Ceramics class 1 item	Summer 1967
1/47	Clean lakes act 7 items	1988
1/48	Clippings about J.H. Carey 3 items	ca. 1963-1970
1/49	Crime file 15 items	1975-1985
1/50	Armed robbery 3 items	April 1984
1/51	Special agent permit 27 items	1981-1984
1/52	Curriculum vitae 14 items	ca. 1956-1976
1/53	Custer massacre 2 items	undated
1/54	Dancing certificates 6 items	1962-1975
1/55	Dixie vintage auto club 3 items	1968
1/56	European trip, journal 1 item	1962
1/57	Garden plans, Hamburg, New York 30 items	1958-1961
1/58	Hamburg, New York, sesquicentennial 6 items	1962
1/59	Journal 1 item	1946-1947
1/60-62	Martin, Mark: Papers 28 items	1970-1985
1/63	Printing samples 7 items	undated
2/64	Medical 3 items	1969-1984
2/65	Membership cards, licenses, etc 33 items	1936-1988
2/66	Menus 7 items	1970-1983
2/67	Military: Certificates 10 items	1940-1947
2/68	Correspondence 30 items	1940-1953
2/69	6th Service Command, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., Mayo Clinic 10 items	November 1944-May 1945
2/70	Camp Callan, California 11 items	May - July 1945
2/71	Camp Beale & Stoneman, California 5 items	July - August 1945
2/72	Philippines, September 9 items	1945 - January 1946
2/73	Korea 19 items	February - October 1946
2/74	Veterans Administration 13 items	1947-1950
2/75	Miscellaneous 5 items	1933-1986
2/76	New Orleans 4 items	1984
2/77	New York to Alabama move 5 items	1966
2/78	Photographs 40 items	ca. 1900-1988
2/79	Rental property: 611 Desire 5 items	1975-1991
2/80-81	1018-20 St. Philip 37 items	1975-1984
2/82	Residence: 1155 E. 56th St., Chicago 10 items	1948-1952
2/83	6 Melbourne Court, Buffalo, N.Y. 1 item	1957
2/84	2206 Tal-Heim Dr., Birmingham, Alabama 3 items	1966
2/85	1218 Bourbon St., New Orleans 6 items	1973-1977
2/86	Sigma Xi 3 items	1955-1982
2/87	Theater and concert programs 8 items	1949-1957
2/88	Tom Malone cabin affair 6 items	1984
2/89	Travel brochures 15 items	1942-1950
2/90	Trip to Priest Lake, March-April 4 items	1986
2/91	Voter registration certificate 1 item	1967
2/92	Weston, Jean Kendrick 21 items	1983-1986
2/93	Wine: American Wine Society 18 items	1968-1972
2/94	Meeting of American Wine Society, Erie, Pennsylvania 7 items	1970
2/95	General 36 items	1967-1983

Series III. Professional 1941-1988 Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
2/96	American Board of Pediatrics 3 items	1946-1947
2/97	Articles by Joshua H. Carey 3 items	1955-1961
2/98	Class laboratory instructions: Anatomy 7 items	undated
2/99	Neuroanatomy 17 items	1953-1954
2/100	Class laboratory outline: Neuroanatomy 3 items	1941
2/101-102	Class lecture notes: Anatomy 43 items	1951-1955
2/103	EEG 1 item	1951
2/104-107	Neuroanatomy 34 items	1950-1952
2/108	Comparative neuroanatomy 17 items	1953-1954
2/109	Pain 1 item	undated
2/110	Comparative neuroanatomy roundtable 1 item	ca. 1970
2/111	Crosby, Dr. Elizabeth 3 items	ca. 1970
2/112	Eastern box turtle drawings - tuberculum 2 items	1967
2/113	Government Printing Office orders 26 items	1963-1964
2/114	Grant, National Institutes of Health 13 items	1970-1973
2/115	Hamburg, New York: Office plan and audits 8 items	1962-1969
2/116	Hospitals: Buffalo, New York 3 items	1958-1961
2/117	Bonnabel, Metairie, Louisiana 10 items	1982-1985
2/118	Chalmette General, Chalmette, Louisiana 2 items	1977-1978
2/119	East Jefferson, Metairie, La. 23 items	1973-1984
2/120	Mercy, New Orleans 40 items	1973-1985
2/121	Montelepre, New Orleans 12 items	1977-1987
2/122	Slidell Memorial, Slidell, La.	1973-1985
2/123	St. Claude General, New Orleans 16 items	1976-1978
2/124	West Jefferson, Marrero, La. 17 items	1972-1980
2/125	Lectures and talks by Joshua Carey 7 items	ca. 1958-1965
2/126	Louisiana State Medical Society 2 items	1986
2/127	Macmillan Co., Galley proof for Joshua Carey's article in Comparative Correlative Neuroanatomy of the Vertebrate Telencephalon 16 items	1982
2/128	Macmillan Co., Vertebrate Neuroanatomy 5 items	1972
3/129	Miscellaneous 5 items	1957-1976
3/130	Monkey experiments 14 items	1947-1960
3/131	Notes on neurophysiology 1 item	undated
3/132	Newspaper clippings 2 items	ca. 1954
3/133	Patient profiles: Children's Hospital, Buffalo 12 items	1966
3/134-135	General 13 items	1962-1977
3/136	Diane Daniels 16 items	1982-1986
3/137	Mark, Matthew & Mitchell Daniels 25 items	1982-1985
3/138	Photographs 5 items	1955-1958
3/139	Professional licenses 34 items	1960-1985
3/140	Professional memberships 25 items	1950-1988
3/141	Retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) 8 items	1953-1979
3/142	Residency applications 10 items	1947-1951
3/143	Schools: Children's class work 28 items	1977-1978
3/144	Iroquois Central 28 items	1962-1968
3/145	League for the Handicapped 3 items	1962-1964
3/146	Milwaukee Vocational & Adult 8 items	1960-1965
3/147	New York 6 items	1965-1967
3/148	Reading project 12 items	1962-1965
3/149	Schools for problem children 8 items	1963-1966
3/150	State medical boards 25 items	1944-1952
3/151	Stationery, prescription pads, etc. 26 items	undated
3/152	Taxoplasmosis 17 items	undated
3/153	Therapy 4 items	undated
3/154	University of Alabama: Fire in Dr. Carey's laboratory 4 items	1968
3/155	University of Buffalo 8 items	1953-1957
3/156	University of Chicago 12 items	1947-1956
3/157	University of Michigan 4 items	1951
3/158	Workshop: Clinical EEG course 15 items	1972
3/159	Geriatric drug use 2 items	1984
os/160	Appointment book 1 item	1976
os/161	Crosby, Elizabeth Caroline, et al. Correlative neurosurgery. Springfield, Ill., Charles C. Thomas 1 item	1955
os/162	Crosby, Elizabeth C., et al. Correlative anatomy of the nervous system. New York, .Macmillan 1 item	1962
os/163	Crosby, Elizabeth C. Comparative correlative neuroanatomy of the vertebrate .telencephalon. New York, Macmillan 1 item	1982
os/164	Original illustrations for chapter three of the above book 14 items	1982

Series IV. Financial , 1940-1988Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/165-166	Check registers, Marine Trust Co., Hamburg N.Y. 7 items	June 1961-December 1967
3/167-168	Check stubs: Central Bank & Trust Co., Birmingham, Ala 3 items	October 1968-August 1971
3/169	International City Bank & Trust, New Orleans 1 item	January 1975-March 1976
3/170	Check register, Whitney National Bank, New Orleans: Personal account 2 items	July 1976-December 1979
3/171-172	Office account 3 items	July 1977-December 1982
3/173	Bank statements and paid checks: Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co., Buffalo, N.Y. 3 items	1957-1965
3/174	Idaho First National Bank, Priest River 7 items	1965
3/175	Idaho First National Bank, Priest River 29 items	1986-1988
3/176-178	Hibernia National Bank, New Orleans, Real estate account 36 items	1980-1982
3/179-181	Whitney National Bank, New Orleans, Personal account 50 items	1974-1977; 1981; 1986-1988
4/182-185	Whitney National Bank, New Orleans, Office account 33 items	1982; 1986; 1988
4/186	Whitney National Bank, New Orleans, Real estate account 13 items	1982
4/187	Banks, Correspondence: Seafirst Bank, Chewela, WA 1 item	1988
4/188	Whitney National Bank 6 items	1986-1988
4/189	Banks, Safety deposit box, Ann Arbor Bank 3 items	1959-1963
4/190	Banks, Savings account: First National Bank of Commerce, New Orleans 1 item	1976
4/191	Idaho First National Bank, Priest River 5 items	1975-1986
4/192	University Hospital Employees Credit Union, Buffalo, N.Y. 3 items	1958-1965
4/193	Collection agency, New Orleans 3 items	1983
4/194	Credit card applications 8 items	1984-1985
4/195	Expenses: Book on comparative anatomy of the brains of vertebrate - Dr. Crosby 16 items	1975-1976
4/196	Computer tomography course 11 items	1977
4/197	European trip 16 items	1962
4/198	Lodging in Great Britain 17 items	1959
4/199-200	Professional travel 178 items	1961-1966; 1978
4/201	Trip to Buffalo 7 items	October-November 1971
4/202	Trip to Long Island 1 item	1978
4/203-204	Trips to New Orleans from Priest Lake 177 items	1986
4/205	Trip to New Orleans from Priest Lake 1 item	1988
4/206	Trip to Priest Lake at the time of father's death 9 items	October 1968
4/207	Trip to Spokane 2 items	October 1971
4/208	Income: TIAA-CREF 26 items	1984-1988
4/209	Other 2 items	1987
4/210	Insurance: Automobile 40 items	1956-1988
4/211	Flood 3 items	1981-1984
4/212	Health & Accident 17 items	1961-1988
4/213	Homeowners 28 items	1958-1988
4/214	Life (National Service Life Insurance Co.) 68 items	1943-1976
4/215	Life (New York Life) 10 items	1940-1981
4/216	Professional liability, Workmens Comp 5 items	1957-1982
4/217	Legal 2 items	1981-1985
4/218	Loans: Ann Arbor Bank 6 items	1953-1956
4/219	Central Bank and Trust, Birmingham, Ala 7 items	1967
4/220	Greater New Orleans Homestead Association 72 items	1976-1985
4/221	Hudson State Savings Bank, Hudson, MI 2 items	1953-1956
4/222	Idaho First National Bank, Coeur d'Alene 16 items	1950-1952
4/223	Marine Trust Co., Hamburg, N.Y. 12 items	1962-1967
4/224	Promissory notes, Drs. Crosby and Humphrey, Stanly Easton, et al 6 items	1940-1972
4/225	Security Homestead Association, New Orleans 54 items	1972-1988
4/226	University of Chicago 33 items	1942-1954
4/227	Pediatrics Anonymous Fund 17 items	1951-1967
4/228	Whitney National Bank of New Orleans 36 items	1972-1988
4/229	Medical 25 items	1977-1988
4/230	New York State Department of Labor 3 items	1966
4/231-233	Office Accounts: Daily log sheets 3 items	1956-1963
4/234	Expense ledger 1 item	1962-1966
os/235	Accounts payable, Hamburg, N.Y. office 1 item	1961-1966
4/236	Office ledger 1 item	1974-1977
4/237	Bookkeeping resume 10 items	1976
4/238	Accounts receivable 4 items	1981-1982
4/239-242	Office bills paid 102 items	1981
4/243	Property: Priest Lake 29 items	1963-1964
4/244	Priest Lake, work on cabin 26 items	1986-1988
4/245	Purchase and sale of North Boston house 47 items	1957-1966
4/246	Sale of 1216-1218 Bourbon St 12 items	1985-1990
5/247	Rentals 9 items	1979-1988
5/248	Rent receipts 1 item	1977-1985
5/249	Social Security 5 items	1942-1965
5/250	Taxes: Employers Quarterly Federal Tax Return (form 941) 31 items	1980-1982
5/251-252	Income 13 items	1958-1968
5/253-256	Income 16 items	1969-1973
5/257-258	Income 25 items	1974-1976
6/259-264	Income 64 items	1977-1986
6/265	Property, Bonner County, Idaho 12 items	1963-1987
6/266	Property and school, Hamburg & Boston, N.Y. 14 items	1959-1965
6/267	Property, New Orleans 8 items	1981-1988
6/268	Unemployment 25 items	1980-1983
6/269	Volkswagen 2 items	1963

Series V. Films , 1955-1965Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
7/270-298	Dr. Elizabeth Crosby's 16 mm movie films documenting experiments on monkeys 29 items	1955-1965

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Bird watching -- Idaho -- Moscow
Pediatric neurology -- Study and teaching
Physicians -- Correspondence
Vertebrates -- Physiology -- Research

Personal Names

Carey, Elizabeth Caroline, 1888-

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Carey, Joshua Harlan, 1916-1993--Archives.

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