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Visiting Nurse Association of Boston photographs
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Gift of Casey Cuthbert-Allman, 1989.
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A lesson in the care of baby, from the 1915 Annual Report, circa 1900.
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Health staff nurses at work, circa 1900.
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Patient being treated on rooftop for tuberculosis, from 1905 Annual Report.
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A patient being treated on rooftop for tuberculosis, from 1905 Annual Report.
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Two visiting nurses tending children, from 1908 Annual Report.
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Factory nurse inspecting two female employees n a small room in the factory, from the 1908 Annual Report.
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Nurse attending mother while little girl watches, circa 1909.
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Two visiting nurses and man coming down tenant's stairs, before 1912.
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Visiting nurse cooking for a family, before 1912.
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Visiting nurse with family, before 1912.
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Visiting nurse washing girl's hair while old woman watches, before 1912.
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Visiting nurse combing woman's hair, before 1912.
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Nurse administering oxygen to small child with pneumonia, from the 1908 Annual Report.
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Visiting nurse at woman's bedside, before 1912.
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Visiting nurse tending man, before 1912.
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Mrs. Robert De Normandue, Vice President of IDNA, Board member of VNA of Boston, circa 1900.
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Mrs. Robert De Normandue, Vice President of IDNA, Board member of VNA of Boston, circa 1900.
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Mrs. Robert De Normandue, Vice President of IDNA, Board member of VNA of Boston, circa 1900.
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Mrs. Ernest Amory Codman, President of INWA, Board member of VNA of Boston, circa 1900.
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Miss Gertrude W. Peabody, Vice President of CHA, circa 1900.
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Miss Katharin Tackers, Director of Philadelphia Visiting Nurse Society, undated.
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Dr. Alice Hamilton of Harvard Medical School, circa 1900.
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Miss Summerville, circa 1900.
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Child's funeral hearse of the type seen in New England up to 1920.
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Miss Deramy, chief of staff 1921-1922, diapering a small boy, circa 1918-1920.
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Visiting nurse bathing hand of elderly woman in traction, circa 191?.
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Visiting nurse treating boy's back, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse treating a woman with cancer of the mistep, December 1920.
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Visiting nurse attending sick mother while son looks on, circa 1920.
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Visiting nurse with mother and seven children, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse, Edna Palmer, with bedridden woman, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse, Gertrude Morton, with mother and child, circa 1920s.
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Nurse inspecting back and buttocks of small child, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse with mother and newborn, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse, Rose Heepler, going over with young boy how to care for his sick mother and little sister, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse checking a young boy who just returned home after a masoid operation, circa 1922.
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Visiting nurse checking a young boy who just returned home after a masoid operation, circa 1922.
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Visiting nurse, Margret Breslin, taking woman's blood pressure, circa 1924.
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Nurse, Margret Breslin treating a leg injury in the District Office, circa 1925.
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Nurse with sick child and mother, circa 1925.
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Visiting nurse, Edith Johnson, taking pulse of elderly man, from the 1925 Annual Report.
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Visiting nurse demonstrates to mother care of baby born at home, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse watching mother care for her newborn, from the 1925 Annual Report.
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Nurse checking stomachs of two girls, from the 1925 Annual Report.
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Visiting nurse, Fentrude R. Post of the Roxburg District, with three children, bringing shoes to Peter De Legoniator for repair per arrangement between him and the CHA.
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Nurse bathing two babies, circa 1930s.
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Visiting nurse with a chronically ill patient, circa 1930s.
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Visiting nurse, Helen Kiley, with children Janet Foley and Jospeh Moors, victims of the infant parlysis epidemic, Janet is learning to massage her own legs, circa 1930-1935.
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Miss Rachel Warner, Secretary of the Junior League and then Secretary of the Auxiliary Committee, circa 1920s.
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Mrs. James Laurence, Jr. Board member of the VNA of Boston, circa 1920s.
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Mrs. Sayer, Assistant Supervisor, circa 1920-1930.
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Mrs. L. Cushing Goodhue of Beacon Street, member of the Fund-raising Committee of CHA, circa 1920-1930.
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Miss Saura S. Draper, Assistant Director of the CHA, circa 1920s.
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Miss Grace O'Bryan, Associate Director, undated.
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Meeting of Woman, circa 1925-1935.
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Bedridden Patient, undated.
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Group of children, reading outside, undated.
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Mother holding baby, circa 1925-1935.
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Elderly woman, undated.
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Three children sitting outside in hats and coats, circa 1930s.
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Little boy in rags, circa 1925-1935.
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Little boy and girl, circa 1925-1935.
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Little girl, circa 1925-1935.
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Visiting nurse with black bag, after 1912.
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Visiting nurse Edith Johnson, circa 1920s.
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Formal Group photo of nurse at the office, circa 1920s.
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Group photo of nurses in the snow, circa 1920s.
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Visiting nurse with black bag, circa 1923.
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Groups of Visiting nurses, undated.
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Nurse teaching class in nutrition and child care, circa 1920s.
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Mothers and children at the VNA of Boston for child care class, circa 1925-1935.
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Nurses demonstrating weighing baby to mothers, circa 1920s.
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Nurse, Gertrude Post, teaching a class for expectant mothers in proper clothing and care of mother and child, from the 1925 Annual Report.
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A graduate of the first special training program to volunteers, demonstrates to members of the Mother's Club of Charleston, what she has learned about prenatal low cost foods. Left to right: Mrs. Anna Sheridan, Mrs. Catherine Driscoll, Mrs. Marie Tobin, and Mrs. Margaret De Fasco, circa 1930s.
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Nurse Marjorie Michelson caring for child in respirator, circa 1940s.
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Visiting nurse demonstrating to older woman how to walk with cane, circa 1940s.
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Nurse administering to child in a wheelchair, circa 1940.
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Visiting nurse gives instruction to mother on the care of her sick child, circa 1940s.
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Nurse applying surgical dressing to a bad burn on child's arm, circa 1940.
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Visiting nurse and woman in kitchen, mixing something in test tubes, circa 1940.
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Visiting nurse administers to young girl while mother watches, February 19, 1948.
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Marilyn Barley, Supervisor, and Staff, circa 1940s.
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Mother with two children, circa 1940s.
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Mrs. Grace Stove, Nutritionist, going over pre-natal nutrition with the Isttecahima Mother's Club, February 1, 1948.
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Nurse demonstrating proper clothing to expectant mothers, circa 1940s.
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Visiting nurse demonstrates giving a shot to a doll while young girl watches, circa 1950s.
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Visiting nurse, K. Taylor, applies surgical dressing to the leg ulcer of an elderly woman, circa 1950s.
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Visiting nurse, K. Taylor, applies surgical dressing to the leg ulcer of an elderly woman, circa 1950s.
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Visiting nurse helping an elderly man walk with cruches, circa 1950s.
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Visiting nurse helping an elderly man walk with cruches, circa 1950s.
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Unidentified visiting nurse walking through a neighborhood, circa 1950s.
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Visiting nurse, Miss Schaefer, bandages arm of an 82-year old man, May 1956.
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Visiting nurse takes the blood pressure of a woman expecting her second child while the first child watches, May 1956.
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Visiting Nurse Waite makes a health and development check of a one-year old child, May 1956.
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Auxilary Committee raising money for CHA, left to right: Miss Virginia Gardner, Miss Rachel Warner, Mrs. Roger Converse, Mrs. Edward H. Warren, and Miss Francis Sardiner, circa 1950s.
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Visiting nurse with four children, circa 1960s.
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Nurse with newborn baby and mother, circa 1960s.
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Nurse riding her bicycle through a neighborhood, circa 1960s.
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Nurse on her bicycle, circa 1960s.
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Nurse with her bicycle, circa 1960s.
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Nurse with an elderly couple, 1968.
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Penelope Hope with Mr. and Mrs. Rathbone, grandson of Willian Rathbone, founder of PHN in England, circa 1968.
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Series 2. Slides.
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