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Nurses -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Children's Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association

 Collection
Identifier: AC-15
Scope and Contents The collection is arranged in eight series. Series I, Financial Records, 1925-2002, contains all financial information associated with the Nurses Alumnae Association between 1940 until approximately 1998. Auditors and treasurer reports make up the majority of the series. It also contains a number of proposed budgets from 1940-1993 with some gaps. Three folders contain miscellaneous financial information from 1940-1980, including bills, receipts and budgetary concerns of the...
Dates: 1891 - 2005; undated

Sarah Fish Woodworth, R.N. (1889-1991) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-16
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Fish’s diary, passport, letters, photographs, nursing certificates, and other documents relating to Sarah Fish’s service in the Harvard Surgical Unit of the British Expeditionary Force at the No. 22 General Hospital in France. The collection also includes Fish’s nursing cap and Harvard Unit armband.

Dates: 1915-1978; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1921

Elizabeth Alice Pitcher Jones (1922-1997) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-18
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of two series.Series I, Correspondence, 1940-1943 (bulk, 1941-1942), consists of correspondence sent by Elizabeth Alice Pitcher to her father, W. Lester Pitcher; stepmother, Allura E. Pitcher; and brother, Warren E. “Bud” Pitcher, in Camden, Maine. The only exceptions being two letters from one of Betty’s young patients, ‘Jimmy,’ sent when she was sick for several days. Betty’s letters recount her life at the Nursing School including the rigorous...
Dates: 1940-2013; Majority of material found within 1941-1942

Charlotte de Tonnancour (1898-1950) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-20
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three notebooks, quarter bound in cloth and marble paper. They contain hand-written notes in ink and pencil, as well as several drawings and sketches, all by Charlotte de Tonnancour. The notebook labelled “Medical Lectures” (#1.3) contains fourteen sheets of loose paper containing further notes. All of the notes pertain to medical lectures and topics. Only one of the notebooks contains a date. “Charlotte deTonnancour ‘20” is inscribed in ink and a May 1919 date is...
Dates: 1919-1920; undated