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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.
Overview and metadata sections
Items are identified by accession number, and may be removed from this collection at any time as provenance becomes known.
People
- Grube, Wendy
- McClelland, Helen Grace
- Miner, Sylvia Pridmore, 1920-2002
- Pepperman, Vesta Metherell
- Trude, Sarah P.
- Woodbridge, Norma Jean
- Myers, Henrietta
- Walworth, Reubena H. (Reubena Hyde), -1898.
- Maass, Clara
- Prinzing, Martha
- Lewis, Edith Patton, 1914-2005
- Meyerson, Margy Ellinar
- McCosh, Isabella Guthrie, 1897
Organization
- Elwyn, Inc..
- Pennsylvania Hospital.
- Philadelphia Lying-In Charity.
- Philadelphia Nurses Association.
- Presbyterian School of Nursing.
- Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia.
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
- Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
- United States. Department of Commerce..
- University of Pennsylvania. School of Nursing.
Subject
- Nursing
- Military nursing
- Legislation
- Visiting nurses
- Maternity nursing
- Nursing--History
- Health policy
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care
- Male nurses
Place
Occupation
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Bethany Myers
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is unrestricted.
- Use Restrictions
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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
See also: MC 5B, Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia records.
Physical Description[photocopy]
[2 folders]
[1 folder, 2 oversized]
This copyright is not held by the Bates Center. No reproduction of this item is permitted.
A photographic doll of Pepperman, also part of this accession, is on display in the Center's reading room.
Physical Description[4 folders]
This diploma was received by Martha Prinzing.
This file contains 3 reports relating to hospital textiles and linens: "Summary Report of the General Conference on Simplification of Hospital and Institutional Textiles", June 10, 1927; "American Hospital Association Linen Survey", November 1926; and "Hospital Survey: Use of Color in Hospitals" by Herbert A. Ehrman, undated.
This file contains printed programs and brochures discussing the Silverstein Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. It also includes a handmade folder, titled "The Best of '12'", containing pasted nurse uniform catalog pages with typed captions.
These three letters were sent to Theresa Stephany by Edith "Pat" Lewis, a nurse editor at the American Journal of Nursing.
Meyerson donated a number of printed items, mostly pamphlets, that have been cataloged in the Center's book collection. These folders contain her donations of University of Pennsylvania-related material, mostly concerning health sciences events.
Physical Description[3 folders]
Donated by Marie G. Johnson, these articles relate to medicine and nursing, primarily about the Civil War and Philadelphia's involvement.
This series contains a collection of articles related to men, nursing, and staffing.
Physical Description0.3 Linear feet