NTDMG365.xml Guide to the Joshua Harlan Carey Records 1934-1988 Carey (Joshua Harlan) Records Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives ©1993 Encoded by ArchProteus2003 Finding aid is in English Overview of the Collection University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives MG365 Joshua Harlan Carey, 1916-1993 Joshua Harlan Carey Records 1934-1988 7.0 cubic feet 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. English

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."

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.

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.

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.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Idaho Medicine and Health Carey, Joshua Harlan, 1916-1993--Archives. Carey, Elizabeth Caroline, 1888- Bird watching -- Idaho -- Moscow Pediatric neurology -- Study and teaching Physicians -- Correspondence Vertebrates -- Physiology -- Research Detailed Description of the Collection Series I. Correspondence 1934-1988 1/1 Correspondence 1934-1948 42 items 1/2 Correspondence 1952-1957 69 items 1/3 Correspondence 1958-1959 83 items 1/4 Correspondence 1960 75 items 1/5 Correspondence 1961 79 items 1/6 Correspondence 1962 59 items 1/7 Correspondence 1963 104 items 1/8 Correspondence 1964 140 items 1/9 Correspondence 1965-1968 39 items 1/10 Correspondence 1970-1979 16 items 1/11 Correspondence 1980-1988 39 items Series II. Personal 1934-1988 1/12 Accession book for books purchased 1937-1939 1 item 1/13 Article: Microscope Collection of the Medical Museum Armed Forces Institute of Pathology undated 1 item 1/14 Automobile accidents 1983-1985 4 items 1/15 Automobile accident December 31, 1977 16 items 1/16 Automobile accident July 5, 1984 16 items 1/17 Automobile registrations 1971-1987 11 items 1/18 Birds 1967 2 items 1/19 Bird collecting permits 1938-1964 18 items 1/20 Bird lists undated 3 items 1/21 Granite Creek, Priest Lake, Idaho 1967-1968 1 item 1/22 Bird watching checklists: Birds of north central U.S. 1954, 1957 7 items 1/23 Bird watching journal 1933-1936 1 item 1/24 Moscow, Idaho 1937-1938 2 items 1/25 Moscow, Idaho 1939-1944 1 item 1/26 Rochester, Minnesota March-April 1945 47 items 1/27 Camp Callan, California May 1945 15 items 1/28-29 Camp Callan, California 1947-1948 49 items 1/30 Bird watching notes, Kelso Lake, Bonner Co, Idaho 1948, 1961 2 items 1/31 Bird watching journal 1948-1951 44 items 1/32 Bird watching notes 1953-1961 4 items 1/33 Birds: Hummingbird prints ca. 1970 2 items 1/34 Pacific Northwest Bird & Mammal Society 1948-1971 4 items 1/35 Pet book no.1 1934 1 item 1/36 Skinning and preparation (booklets) 1949 2 items 1/37 Birds in other collections undated 3 items 1/38 Birds of Greenland, prospectus 1949 1 item 1/39 Books: Alphabetical listing of Dr. Carey's books ca. 1945 1 item 1/40 Book lists ca. 1962 3 items 1/41 Book lists and receipts - Henry Rust's library 1957-1962 6 items 1/42 Periodicals shipped from home 1960-1961 1 item 1/43 Purchases 1947-1964 9 items 1/44 Boston, New York 1958-1975 7 items 1/45 Camping equipment and trip checklists ca. 1945 2 items 1/46 Ceramics class Summer 1967 1 item 1/47 Clean lakes act 1988 7 items 1/48 Clippings about J.H. Carey ca. 1963-1970 3 items 1/49 Crime file 1975-1985 15 items 1/50 Armed robbery April 1984 3 items 1/51 Special agent permit 1981-1984 27 items 1/52 Curriculum vitae ca. 1956-1976 14 items 1/53 Custer massacre undated 2 items 1/54 Dancing certificates 1962-1975 6 items 1/55 Dixie vintage auto club 1968 3 items 1/56 European trip, journal 1962 1 item 1/57 Garden plans, Hamburg, New York 1958-1961 30 items 1/58 Hamburg, New York, sesquicentennial 1962 6 items 1/59 Journal 1946-1947 1 item 1/60-62 Martin, Mark: Papers 1970-1985 28 items 1/63 Printing samples undated 7 items 2/64 Medical 1969-1984 3 items 2/65 Membership cards, licenses, etc 1936-1988 33 items 2/66 Menus 1970-1983 7 items 2/67 Military: Certificates 1940-1947 10 items 2/68 Correspondence 1940-1953 30 items 2/69 6th Service Command, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., Mayo Clinic November 1944-May 1945 10 items 2/70 Camp Callan, California May - July 1945 11 items 2/71 Camp Beale & Stoneman, California July - August 1945 5 items 2/72 Philippines, September 1945 - January 1946 9 items 2/73 Korea February - October 1946 19 items 2/74 Veterans Administration 1947-1950 13 items 2/75 Miscellaneous 1933-1986 5 items 2/76 New Orleans 1984 4 items 2/77 New York to Alabama move 1966 5 items 2/78 Photographs ca. 1900-1988 40 items 2/79 Rental property: 611 Desire 1975-1991 5 items 2/80-81 1018-20 St. Philip 1975-1984 37 items 2/82 Residence: 1155 E. 56th St., Chicago 1948-1952 10 items 2/83 6 Melbourne Court, Buffalo, N.Y. 1957 1 item 2/84 2206 Tal-Heim Dr., Birmingham, Alabama 1966 3 items 2/85 1218 Bourbon St., New Orleans 1973-1977 6 items 2/86 Sigma Xi 1955-1982 3 items 2/87 Theater and concert programs 1949-1957 8 items 2/88 Tom Malone cabin affair 1984 6 items 2/89 Travel brochures 1942-1950 15 items 2/90 Trip to Priest Lake, March-April 1986 4 items 2/91 Voter registration certificate 1967 1 item 2/92 Weston, Jean Kendrick 1983-1986 21 items 2/93 Wine: American Wine Society 1968-1972 18 items 2/94 Meeting of American Wine Society, Erie, Pennsylvania 1970 7 items 2/95 General 1967-1983 36 items Series III. Professional 1941-1988 2/96 American Board of Pediatrics 1946-1947 3 items 2/97 Articles by Joshua H. Carey 1955-1961 3 items 2/98 Class laboratory instructions: Anatomy undated 7 items 2/99 Neuroanatomy 1953-1954 17 items 2/100 Class laboratory outline: Neuroanatomy 1941 3 items 2/101-102 Class lecture notes: Anatomy 1951-1955 43 items 2/103 EEG 1951 1 item 2/104-107 Neuroanatomy 1950-1952 34 items 2/108 Comparative neuroanatomy 1953-1954 17 items 2/109 Pain undated 1 item 2/110 Comparative neuroanatomy roundtable ca. 1970 1 item 2/111 Crosby, Dr. Elizabeth ca. 1970 3 items 2/112 Eastern box turtle drawings - tuberculum 1967 2 items 2/113 Government Printing Office orders 1963-1964 26 items 2/114 Grant, National Institutes of Health 1970-1973 13 items 2/115 Hamburg, New York: Office plan and audits 1962-1969 8 items 2/116 Hospitals: Buffalo, New York 1958-1961 3 items 2/117 Bonnabel, Metairie, Louisiana 1982-1985 10 items 2/118 Chalmette General, Chalmette, Louisiana 1977-1978 2 items 2/119 East Jefferson, Metairie, La. 1973-1984 23 items 2/120 Mercy, New Orleans 1973-1985 40 items 2/121 Montelepre, New Orleans 1977-1987 12 items 2/122 Slidell Memorial, Slidell, La. 1973-1985 2/123 St. Claude General, New Orleans 1976-1978 16 items 2/124 West Jefferson, Marrero, La. 1972-1980 17 items 2/125 Lectures and talks by Joshua Carey ca. 1958-1965 7 items 2/126 Louisiana State Medical Society 1986 2 items 2/127 Macmillan Co., Galley proof for Joshua Carey's article in Comparative Correlative Neuroanatomy of the Vertebrate Telencephalon 1982 16 items 2/128 Macmillan Co., Vertebrate Neuroanatomy 1972 5 items 3/129 Miscellaneous 1957-1976 5 items 3/130 Monkey experiments 1947-1960 14 items 3/131 Notes on neurophysiology undated 1 item 3/132 Newspaper clippings ca. 1954 2 items 3/133 Patient profiles: Children's Hospital, Buffalo 1966 12 items 3/134-135 General 1962-1977 13 items 3/136 Diane Daniels 1982-1986 16 items 3/137 Mark, Matthew & Mitchell Daniels 1982-1985 25 items 3/138 Photographs 1955-1958 5 items 3/139 Professional licenses 1960-1985 34 items 3/140 Professional memberships 1950-1988 25 items 3/141 Retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) 1953-1979 8 items 3/142 Residency applications 1947-1951 10 items 3/143 Schools: Children's class work 1977-1978 28 items 3/144 Iroquois Central 1962-1968 28 items 3/145 League for the Handicapped 1962-1964 3 items 3/146 Milwaukee Vocational & Adult 1960-1965 8 items 3/147 New York 1965-1967 6 items 3/148 Reading project 1962-1965 12 items 3/149 Schools for problem children 1963-1966 8 items 3/150 State medical boards 1944-1952 25 items 3/151 Stationery, prescription pads, etc. undated 26 items 3/152 Taxoplasmosis undated 17 items 3/153 Therapy undated 4 items 3/154 University of Alabama: Fire in Dr. Carey's laboratory 1968 4 items 3/155 University of Buffalo 1953-1957 8 items 3/156 University of Chicago 1947-1956 12 items 3/157 University of Michigan 1951 4 items 3/158 Workshop: Clinical EEG course 1972 15 items 3/159 Geriatric drug use 1984 2 items os/160 Appointment book 1976 1 item os/161 Crosby, Elizabeth Caroline, et al. Correlative neurosurgery. Springfield, Ill., Charles C. Thomas 1955 1 item os/162 Crosby, Elizabeth C., et al. Correlative anatomy of the nervous system. New York, .Macmillan 1962 1 item os/163 Crosby, Elizabeth C. Comparative correlative neuroanatomy of the vertebrate .telencephalon. New York, Macmillan 1982 1 item os/164 Original illustrations for chapter three of the above book 1982 14 items Series IV. Financial 1940-1988 3/165-166 Check registers, Marine Trust Co., Hamburg N.Y. June 1961-December 1967 7 items 3/167-168 Check stubs: Central Bank & Trust Co., Birmingham, Ala October 1968-August 1971 3 items 3/169 International City Bank & Trust, New Orleans January 1975-March 1976 1 item 3/170 Check register, Whitney National Bank, New Orleans: Personal account July 1976-December 1979 2 items 3/171-172 Office account July 1977-December 1982 3 items 3/173 Bank statements and paid checks: Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co., Buffalo, N.Y. 1957-1965 3 items 3/174 Idaho First National Bank, Priest River 1965 7 items 3/175 Idaho First National Bank, Priest River 1986-1988 29 items 3/176-178 Hibernia National Bank, New Orleans, Real estate account 1980-1982 36 items 3/179-181 Whitney National Bank, New Orleans, Personal account 1974-1977; 1981; 1986-1988 50 items 4/182-185 Whitney National Bank, New Orleans, Office account 1982; 1986; 1988 33 items 4/186 Whitney National Bank, New Orleans, Real estate account 1982 13 items 4/187 Banks, Correspondence: Seafirst Bank, Chewela, WA 1988 1 item 4/188 Whitney National Bank 1986-1988 6 items 4/189 Banks, Safety deposit box, Ann Arbor Bank 1959-1963 3 items 4/190 Banks, Savings account: First National Bank of Commerce, New Orleans 1976 1 item 4/191 Idaho First National Bank, Priest River 1975-1986 5 items 4/192 University Hospital Employees Credit Union, Buffalo, N.Y. 1958-1965 3 items 4/193 Collection agency, New Orleans 1983 3 items 4/194 Credit card applications 1984-1985 8 items 4/195 Expenses: Book on comparative anatomy of the brains of vertebrate - Dr. Crosby 1975-1976 16 items 4/196 Computer tomography course 1977 11 items 4/197 European trip 1962 16 items 4/198 Lodging in Great Britain 1959 17 items 4/199-200 Professional travel 1961-1966; 1978 178 items 4/201 Trip to Buffalo October-November 1971 7 items 4/202 Trip to Long Island 1978 1 item 4/203-204 Trips to New Orleans from Priest Lake 1986 177 items 4/205 Trip to New Orleans from Priest Lake 1988 1 item 4/206 Trip to Priest Lake at the time of father's death October 1968 9 items 4/207 Trip to Spokane October 1971 2 items 4/208 Income: TIAA-CREF 1984-1988 26 items 4/209 Other 1987 2 items 4/210 Insurance: Automobile 1956-1988 40 items 4/211 Flood 1981-1984 3 items 4/212 Health & Accident 1961-1988 17 items 4/213 Homeowners 1958-1988 28 items 4/214 Life (National Service Life Insurance Co.) 1943-1976 68 items 4/215 Life (New York Life) 1940-1981 10 items 4/216 Professional liability, Workmens Comp 1957-1982 5 items 4/217 Legal 1981-1985 2 items 4/218 Loans: Ann Arbor Bank 1953-1956 6 items 4/219 Central Bank and Trust, Birmingham, Ala 1967 7 items 4/220 Greater New Orleans Homestead Association 1976-1985 72 items 4/221 Hudson State Savings Bank, Hudson, MI 1953-1956 2 items 4/222 Idaho First National Bank, Coeur d'Alene 1950-1952 16 items 4/223 Marine Trust Co., Hamburg, N.Y. 1962-1967 12 items 4/224 Promissory notes, Drs. Crosby and Humphrey, Stanly Easton, et al 1940-1972 6 items 4/225 Security Homestead Association, New Orleans 1972-1988 54 items 4/226 University of Chicago 1942-1954 33 items 4/227 Pediatrics Anonymous Fund 1951-1967 17 items 4/228 Whitney National Bank of New Orleans 1972-1988 36 items 4/229 Medical 1977-1988 25 items 4/230 New York State Department of Labor 1966 3 items 4/231-233 Office Accounts: Daily log sheets 1956-1963 3 items 4/234 Expense ledger 1962-1966 1 item os/235 Accounts payable, Hamburg, N.Y. office 1961-1966 1 item 4/236 Office ledger 1974-1977 1 item 4/237 Bookkeeping resume 1976 10 items 4/238 Accounts receivable 1981-1982 4 items 4/239-242 Office bills paid 1981 102 items 4/243 Property: Priest Lake 1963-1964 29 items 4/244 Priest Lake, work on cabin 1986-1988 26 items 4/245 Purchase and sale of North Boston house 1957-1966 47 items 4/246 Sale of 1216-1218 Bourbon St 1985-1990 12 items 5/247 Rentals 1979-1988 9 items 5/248 Rent receipts 1977-1985 1 item 5/249 Social Security 1942-1965 5 items 5/250 Taxes: Employers Quarterly Federal Tax Return (form 941) 1980-1982 31 items 5/251-252 Income 1958-1968 13 items 5/253-256 Income 1969-1973 16 items 5/257-258 Income 1974-1976 25 items 6/259-264 Income 1977-1986 64 items 6/265 Property, Bonner County, Idaho 1963-1987 12 items 6/266 Property and school, Hamburg & Boston, N.Y. 1959-1965 14 items 6/267 Property, New Orleans 1981-1988 8 items 6/268 Unemployment 1980-1983 25 items 6/269 Volkswagen 1963 2 items Series V. Films 1955-1965 7/270-298 Dr. Elizabeth Crosby's 16 mm movie films documenting experiments on monkeys 1955-1965 29 items