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)
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.