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Evelyn R. Benson papers

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Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]Claire Fagin Hall, 418 Curie Boulevard, Floor 2U, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4217

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Call Number:
MC 116
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
Extent:
1.6 linear feet (4 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Evelyn R. Benson papers, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1991-2000 (inclusive)
Creator:
Benson, Evelyn R. and Curtiss, John Shelton
Form:
Research (document genres) and Transparencies
Abstract:
This unprocessed collection contains research files and educational materials collected by Evelyn Benson, a Philadelphia nurse. Topics include Hilda Saloman, Lillian Wald, Russian nurses in the Crimean War, and the Albert Einstein Medical Center. The collection also includes two sets of mid-century nursing transparencies.

This collection is unprocessed. A preliminary inventory is given here. Please contact the Center for more information.

Gift of Evelyn Benson.

See also: MC 127A, Series 9, Alumni Association of the Albert Einstein Medical Center School of Nursing.

Ses also: The Evelyn Benson collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011.

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University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Bethany Myers
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This collection is unrestricted.

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Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Center with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.

Collection Inventory

Public Health Nursing Orientation Course, University of Pennsylvania. Address by Katherine Tucker.
Box 2
Biographical research files on Hilda Salomon, circa 1995-2000.
Box 2
Scope and Contents note

Biographical research files on Hilda Salomon, nurse and chief anesthetist at the Jewish Hospital, Philadelphia, 1924-1948, compiled by Evelyn R. Benson. The file contains Benson's correspondence and research notes as well as photocopies of source materials gathered while she was preparing an article on Salomon for Bullough and Sentz, eds., American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary (2000), vol. 3. A copy of the published article is included in the papers.

Collection of Lillian Wald materials, 1945-2000.
Box 2
Scope and Contents note

These materials related to Lillian Wald were given to Benson by Louise Schaefer. Collection consists of a script of NBC broadcast radio dramatization "The Eternal Light," 1945; Health Bulletin for Teachers, 1946; letter to Benson from Henry Street Settlement about Lillian Wald's insignia, 2000; original photograph of Wald with insignia, undated; and a "Memorandum in support of the candidacy of Lillian Wald of Henry Street for admission to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans," 1965.

Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern Montgomery County (VNA-EMC), A Department of Abington Memorial Hospital and Visiting Nurse Association Community Services (VNA-CNS), 1991-1995.
11 cassette tapes: Ekaterina Bakunina, her memoirs as published in Vestnik Evropy.
Reports published in Morskoi Sbornik.
Article: “On the Other Side of the Battle: Russian Nurses in the Crimean War” by Evelyn R. Benson.
Curtiss, John Shelton . Articles: "Russian Sisters of Mercy in the Crimea, 1854-1855" and "Russian Nightingale" by John Shelton Curtiss, 1966-1968.
Three issues of AEMC alumni publication "A Nurse is a Rare Combination: Einstein Nurses…in their own words", 1993, 1995, 1996.
Report to AEMC Alumni, Red Cross pin, Jewish Archives Center newsletter, circa 1944-2000.
ICN conference programme with pin, 1947.

Physical Description

2 boxes [?]

Set of military transparencies, 1950s?.
Scope and Contents note

Contains 15 overhead projector transparencies relating to anatomy/physiology, all are mounted on paper labeled ‘United States Air Force’

Fundamental Nursing Principles (Brady Company, Washington, DC). 1 set in leather covered carton..
Physical Description

1 set in leather covered carton.

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