Subject: African American nurses / Occupation: Nurse - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 1.87 linear feet
Abstract:: The Bates Center's Small Collections are various, unrelated accessions that have been individually assigned collection numbers. Many of the Small Collections consist of a single folder.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]

Extent:: 3.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Mabel Morris was a public health nurse. After graduating from Mercy Hospital Columbia University Teachers College, she was employed by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Temple University, and the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia. This collection contains correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and alumni memorabilia, articles, teaching aides, and a small selection of photographs.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]

Extent:: 21.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Mary Starke Harper was a nurse leader in health policy and a scholar of geropsychiatric nursing and the care of the minority elderly. She was the first African American graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. This collection consists primarily of research files which Dr. Harper assembled from 1972-1988, when she held leadership posts at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Cynthia Capers was the first black graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's nursing doctoral program, and has worked as a nurse, family therapist, consultant, researcher, professor, dean, and special assistant to the provost at the University of Akron. This collection contains some of her papers and records, including biographical information, outlines for courses at the Germantown Dispensary Hospital School, and doctoral program materials from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.02 linear feet
Abstract:: Marie Johnstone was a student at Providence Hospital School of Nursing, an African American training school in Chicago. This small collection contains her diploma and one photograph.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]

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