Title: Iva Louise Hartman Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1928-1974

Creator:

• Hartman, Iva Louise, 1892-1975

Call Number: Whitewater Mss AY

Quantity: 5.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Whitewater Library / Whitewater Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Correspondence and administrative papers of Hartman, superintendent of a Wisconsin tuberculosis sanatorium, documenting her career and involvement in tuberculosis and professional associations. In the early 1920s Iva Hartman was one of the first nurses trained at the Trudeau Sanatorium at Saranac Lake, New York, which was then pioneering in the care of tubercular patients. In 1929 she came to Janesville, Wisconsin as the first superintendent of the Pinehurst Sanatorium. She remained at Pinehurst until her retirement in 1959. Most of the collection deals with national, state, and local tuberculosis associations and the administration of Pinehurst Sanatorium. Among the materials relating to the Sanatorium are correspondence, annual reports, superintendent's reports, patient and staff schedules, and patient records as well as copies of newspaper clippings about Pinehurst and many photos of the Sanitorium and its staff. The tuberculosis and professional association records include some routine correspondence, but are mainly reports and publicity materials.

Language: English

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Iva Louise Hartman, the first superintendent of Pinehurst Sanatorium in Janesville, Wisconsin, was born in Port Huron, Michigan in 1892. Her father Daniel was a railroad employee but little other information about her family is available. As a young girl Iva Hartman contracted tuberculosis and was sent to a sanatorium in Texas to recover. She attended high school at the Preparatory Department of Texas Christian University and eventually decided to become a tuberculosis nurse. She trained at the Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, which at that time, the early 1920's, was pioneering effort in the care and cure of tuberculosis. From Trudeau she went to Bellevue Hospital in New York City where she was a head nurse from 1923 to 1925 and supervisor of its tuberculosis service from 1925 to 1929.

In 1929 Miss Hartman came to Janesville as the first superintendent of the new Rock County tuberculosis sanatorium, Pinehurst. She shepherded Pinehurst through the Depression and World War II, enlisting help from the community, ex-patients, and staff to keep the sanatorium running through difficult times. Pinehurst offered social service assistance and rehabilitation facilities to its patients and out-patient clinics for Rock County residents. Hartman was active in educating the community about tuberculosis through workshops at Pinehurst and talks to many local groups and clubs.

Hartman's professional activities were wide-ranging. Among others, she held membership in the American College of Hospital Administrators; Wisconsin Hospital Association; Tri-State Sanatorium Superintendents Association; Wisconsin Nurses Association; and was president of the Wisconsin Sanatorium Superintendents Association during the 1940's. Her activities in tuberculosis associations included assistance in organizing a Rock County Tuberculosis Association, and membership in the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. In 1959, after 30 years of administering Pinehurst Sanatorium, Iva Hartman retired. She remained active, however, in volunteer and publicity work in the fight against tuberculosis.

Iva Hartman never married. She died in 1975.

The greater portion of the collection consists of administrative files of the Pinehurst sanatorium or relates to the activities of professional organizations. There is little of a personal nature aside from some general correspondence with friends and ex-patients, and a few scrapbook items. The many photographs of Pinehurst and its staff, accessioned with the papers, have been separated to the Visual Materials section.

The Pinehurst administration material makes up about one third of the collection. Although the files are incomplete and parts of them are in poor physical condition, what is there suffices to show Miss Hartman's meticulous attention to the administration of the sanatorium and the details and complexities of its operation.

Most of the remainder of the collection is concerned with professional and tuberculosis associations. This material clearly presents the hierarchy and activities of national, state, and local tuberculosis associations during Hartman's career, as well as her activities and affiliations with professional medical organizations.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Estate of Iva Louise Hartman via Attorney Leon Feingold, Janesville, Wisconsin, 1975 and 1976. Accession Number: M75-580, M76-231

Processing Information

Processed by Elizabeth Warfield and Joanne Hohler, 1980.

	Series: Personal Correspondence and Papers
Box   1 Folder   1	1928-1956, 1958
Box   1 Folder   2-4	1959-1974, undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Miscellany
	Series: Pinehurst Sanatorium	⇧
	Administration
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   6-9	1928-1954 June 8
Box   2 Folder   1-3	1954 August 6-1962, 1968-1969, undated
Box   2 Folder   4-5	Annual Reports, 1929-1959
Box   2 Folder   6	Superintendent's Reports and Speeches, 1929-1954, undated
Box   2 Folder   7	Trustee's Correspondence, 1944-1959
Box   2 Folder   8	Trustee's Reports and Minutes, 1939, 1948, 1953-1959
Box   2 Folder   9	Social Worker's Correspondence, 1952-1958
Box   3 Folder   1-3	Inventory, 1939-1959
Box   3 Folder   4	Equipment Lists, undated
Box   3 Folder   5	Accounts and Budgets, 1932, 1946-1959
Box   3 Folder   6	Building Records and Standards, undated
	Personnel
Box   3 Folder   7	Salary Schedules, undated
Box   3 Folder   8	General Personnel Policies, undated
	Nursing Staff: Schedules and Regulations
Box   3 Folder   9	1923-194?
Box   4 Folder   1	undated
	Domestic Staff
Box   4 Folder   2	Cleaning Schedules, undated
Box   4 Folder   3	Food Service Schedules, undated
Box   4 Folder   4	Laundry Schedules, undated
Box   4 Folder   5	Miscellany
	Patients
Box   4 Folder   6	Records of Admission, 1929-1938, 1956
Box   4 Folder   7-8	Regulations and Schedules, 1929-1959, undated
Box   4 Folder   9	Medical Histories and Records, ca. 1930's-1950's
Box   4 Folder   10	Miscellany
Box   5 Folder   1	Medical Treatments and Procedures, undated
Box   5 Folder   2	Newsletters, 1931, 1934-1947, 1954
Box   5 Folder   3	Miscellany
	Series: Other Sanatoria	⇧
Box   5 Folder   4-5	A-R, T, W
Box   5 Folder   6	Miscellany
	Series: Tuberculosis Associations	⇧
	National Tuberculosis Association
Box   5 Folder   7	Annual Reports and Bulletins, 1933, 1937, 1938, 1965
Box   5 Folder   8	Publicity Materials, undated
Box   5 Folder   9	Informational Pamphlets, undated
Box   6 Folder   1-6	Christmas Seal Materials, 1933?-1940, 1942, 1959
	Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Box   6 Folder   7	Correspondence, 1929-1934, 1954-1966, undated
Box   6 Folder   8	Annual Meetings - Reports and Minutes, 1928-1934, 1943-1959
Box   7 Folder   1	Bulletins and Newsletters, alphabetical by title
Box   7 Folder   2	Handbooks and Manuals, 1950?, 1953, 1965, undated
Box   7 Folder   3-4	Reports and Studies, ca. 1930's, 1952-1966
Box   7 Folder   5-6	Publicity Materials, 1929-1932, 1960-1962, 1967, undated
Box   7 Folder   7	Miscellany
	Rock County Tuberculosis Association
Box   8 Folder   1-2	Correspondence, 1932-1949, 1954-1967, undated
Box   8 Folder   3-6	Annual Reports, 1948, 1950-1970
Box   8 Folder   7	Financial Reports, 1935, 1949-1952, 1955-1960
Box   9 Folder   1	Monthly Meetings - Minutes, 1939, 1960-1963
Box   9 Folder   2	Skin Testing Programs, 1957-1963, undated
Box   9 Folder   3	Christmas Seal Materials, 1935-1936, 1941-1946, 1956-1962, 1967
Box   9 Folder   4	Miscellany
	Frank A. Reich Memorial Loan Fund
Box   9 Folder   5	Correspondence, 1947-1959
Box   9 Folder   6	Constitution and Bylaws
Box   9 Folder   7	Annual Meetings - Minutes, 1947-1960
	Come-Back Clubs
Box   9 Folder   8	Correspondence, 1950-1961
Box   9 Folder   9	Constitution and Bylaws, alphabetical by name of club
Box   9 Folder   10	Council Meetings - Minutes, 1949-1950, 1954-1955
Box   9 Folder   11	Newsletters, 1954 November-1956 September
Box   9 Folder   12	Miscellany
	Series: Professional Associations	⇧
	Wisconsin Sanatorium Trustees and Superintendents Association
	Correspondence
Box   9 Folder   13	1930-1953
Box   10 Folder   1-2	1954-1959
Box   10 Folder   3	Constitution and Bylaws
Box   10 Folder   4-6	Meetings - Minutes, 1929-1947, 1952-1959, 1968-1970
Box   10 Folder   7-8	Reports and Studies, 1944-1945, 1954-1959, 1968-1970, undated
Box   10 Folder   9	Legislative Reports, 1954-1959
Box   11 Folder   1	Wisconsin Interorganization Committee on Tuberculosis Nursing: General Reference, ca. 1950's and 1960's
Box   11 Folder   2	Wisconsin Nurses Association: General Reference, 1968, undated
Box   11 Folder   3	Wisconsin Second District Nurses Association: General Reference, 1964-1965
	Tri-State Sanatorium Superintendents Association
Box   11 Folder   4	Correspondence, 1943-1944, 1955-1956
Box   11 Folder   5	Minutes and Reports, 1938-1950
	Wisconsin Hospital Association
Box   11 Folder   6	Correspondence, 1943-1956
Box   11 Folder   7	Minutes and Reports, 1946, 1947
	Tri-State Hospital Assembly
Box   11 Folder   8	Correspondence, 1942-1943, 1949-1956
Box   11 Folder   9	Annual Meetings and Minutes, 1949-1950, 1954-1955, 1958
	American College of Hospital Administrators
Box   11 Folder   10	Correspondence, 1936-1939, 1956
Box   11 Folder   11	Miscellany
	Altrusa Club
Box   12 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1947-1959, undated
Box   12 Folder   2	Constitution and Bylaws
Box   12 Folder   3-4	Minutes and Reports, 1941, 1949-1957, undated
Box   12 Folder   5	Newsletters, 1953-1956
Box   12 Folder   6	Miscellany
Box   12 Folder   7	Newspaper clippings, undated
	Series: Tuberculosis Nursing	⇧
Box   12 Folder   8	General Reference, undated
	Series: Newspaper Clippings Note: Photocopies - originals at Rock County Historical Society.	⇧
Box   12 Folder   9-10	1923-1954
Box   13 Folder   1	1955-1970
	Series: Scrapbooks	⇧
Box   13 Folder   2	Personal Materials, undated
Box   13 Folder   3	Pinehurst, ca. 1940