This sub-series consists of the correspondence, letters and cards received by Dr. Baer. These documents are often in congratulations for awards, articles, or promotions. Letters are also in reference to professional developments and organizations. Another significant portion of correspondence is letters responding to Dr. Baer’s New York Times pieces on "Feminist Disdain". This letters were used by Barbara Bates for an outside piece.

This sub-section contains the materials produced and published by the Barbara Bates Center, of which Dr. Baer was one of the three founders. This includes publications, mailings, reports and grants submitted by Center faculty.

The Alex Hillman Family Foundation partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to develop the Hillman Scholars Program. This program, first introduced in 1990, began has an innovative loan-forgiveness program that provided scholarships to nursing students in exchange for a two year work commitments at a New York hospital. Since then this program has expanded to other locations and in 2011 the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation was developed to foster nursing PhDs. The materials in this series were generated during the creation of the program, its initial inception, and during Dr. Baer’s tenure as program director. Documents include correspondence, applications, clinical placements, reports, financial reports, and other related items. Some individual folders may be restricted to protect student personal identifiable information.

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This sub-series focuses on the correspondence, proposals, drafts, publication agreements and other materials regarding the books Dr. Baer co-edited on nursing history. Of note, this section contains “The Abandonment of the Patient” draft and original transcript lecture held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Documented in this section are the consultations and other positions that Dr. Baer worked on during her career and after her retirement from Penn. There are several materials from projects with New York University and the University of Miami. Documents range from correspondence to final reports to background materials.

Contained in this section are grant applications, references written by Dr. Baer, lecture notes from talks she attended, and other related materials. Grants include “Nursing and Knowledge in America: An Historical Analysis” which sought to use historical methodology to investigate nursing’s efforts to become science. it focused on “what research meant to nurses, how they defined it, how they did it, who did it, how the techniques were learned, [and] how the results were utilized”. Also included here is her Fulbright Application which allowed her to travel to Greece and her work with the Teagle Foundation.

Dr. Baer’s research for the Helene Fuld Health Trust was part of the Trust’s efforts to collate and preserve the record and history of founder Dr. Leonhard Felix Fuld and his family’s interest in funding nurses’ education and welfare projects. This was in conjunction to a film project to recount people’s recollections of Trust related events and the scholarly historical research would be the bases for any script needed for the film. The research led to the publication of a research essay on Dr. Fuld and his family in Leonhard Felix Fuld, 19th century reformer in a 20th century world. (Indianapolis, Ind: Center Nursing Press of Sigma Theta Tau International, 1993). Documents in this section include research notes and primary and secondary source copies, research correspondence and quarterly progress reports.

Also see series 5 for additional papers, series 8 for the Fuld Video Tapes from David Wallace and series 2.7 for research notes on notecards.

This subseries contains all the documents, notes, correspondence, and research copies from various archives related to Dr. Baer’s work on nursing history.

Additional information can be found in series 2.7 for research notes on notecards. Also see series 5 papers, presentations and publications.

This project focused on students’ reactions to clinical experiences. Conducted by Dr. Baer and Barbara Lowery, the research focused on patient and situational factors that affect nursing students’ like or dislike of caring for patients. The resulting data was collected via a questionnaire arranged to represent various models on empathy position. Documents include research notes, data collected, coding to record and analyze the data, empathy literature and draft papers.

Also see series 5 Papers, Presentations and Publications.

The research data listed here was used for various research papers and projects, including “Aspirations of Illusions”. The documents in this subseries include research correspondence, research copies of primary and secondary sources from various archives, and archive literature.

Also see 2.7 Notecards for additional notes on this project as well as series 5 Papers, Presentations and Publications.

This subseries contains some of the research concerning Presbyterian Hospital. The majority of notes can be found in series 2.7 Notecards and the resulted papers and publications in series 5.

This research project focused on the history of a century of care at St. Vincent’s Hospital and St. Vincent’s School of Nursing in New York for their Centennial Celebration in 1992.

Also see series 2.7 Notecards and 5 Papers, Presentations and Publications.

This section contains all the notecards created by Ellen Baer for her various research projects and monographs. The order they are arranged in is the order Dr. Baer sent her collection as. Notecards include her notations on her Fuld Project, Chicago’s “Aspiration” paper, data collected for her work on Presbyterian and St. Vincent’s hospital, as well as other projects.