This series contains several of Dr. Penfield's personal appointment diaries, and several diaries of his wife, Helen Kermott Penfiedl. It also currently includes a photograph album from 1913-1916, a scrapbook from Dr. Penfield's time at Galahad School (1905), some miscellaneous material collected by Dr. William Feindel concerning Dr. Penfield and the Montreal Neurological Institute, and an old reprint mailing list compiled by Dr. Penfield.
The Penfield fonds consists of over eighty metres of Penfield's personal and professional records dating from his childhood up until his death in 1976, including during his career at the Montreal Neurological Institute. The materials in the fonds include photographs, correspondence, manuscripts and drafts of publications and speeches, research notes, glass slides, bound reports, films, and academic gowns.
Sub-series consists of bound appointment diaries used by Dr. Penfield to kep track of both his personal and professional engagements between 1930 and 1976.
The file contains 'The "Peter Pan" Statue: The Story of its acquisition: 1952-1959' by Eileen C. Flanagan, the first director of nursing at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
The file contains miscellaneous correspondence and memorandums about the Ambulatory Care Centre Royal Victoria Hospital, 5th floor Montreal Neurological Institute, EVA Transformer, Radiology Department.
The file contains correspondence about the New Wing (costs, architects, blue prints, site plans); a 23 page pamphlet ‘Invisible Embedded Panel Warning System for Hospitals’; a 7 page pamphlet ‘Radiant Heating and Cooling Applied to Prefabricated Floors and Ceilings’; a 12 page pamphlet ‘Crittall Radient Panel Heating Installations in the United States, Canada and Iceland’; and 6 architectural drawings of the New Wing (1948-1949).