https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_BATES_PU-N.MC210
Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) Training School for Nurses Miscellaneous Collection
- Date
- 1918-2006 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.8 linear feet
- Call Number
- MC 210
Description
Where the collection came from, what's inside, and how you can use it.
Processing Information
Folders are identified by accession number.
Related Materials
See also: MC 5A, Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing Records; MC 13A, Alumni Association of Philadelphia General Hospital Training School For Nurses photographs; MC 71, Alumni Association of the Training School for Nurses of Philadelphia General Hospital collection; MC 72, Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing Student Files collection.
You can view the collection on our Philadelphia General Hospital Photo Collection site.
Records of the Training School for Nurses, Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) can also be located at the Philadelphia City Archives. These materials primarily relate to activities from 1990's - 2005.
Rights and citation
- Use
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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.
- Preferred Citation
- Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) Training School for Nurses miscellaneous collection, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
- Finding aids author
- Finding aid prepared by Bethany Myers
Subjects and headings
- Subject
- Nursing
- Nursing schools
- Nursing students
- Organization
- Alumni Association of Philadelphia General Hospital.
- Alumni Association of the Training School for Nurses of Philadelphia General Hospital.
- Philadelphia General Hospital.
- Place
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Language
- English
- Form
- School yearbooks
- Administrative records
- Diplomas
- Photographs
- Artifacts (object genre)
- Printed ephemera
- Videocassettes
- Postcards
- Manuals (instructional materials)
- Memoirs
Inventory
Everything in this collection, in the order the archivist chose to help you understand it.
Yearbook, Scope of the Class of 1924, with Photograph and Graduation Program, 1924
Yearbooks: Scope of the Class of 1927, Scope of the Class of 1928, 1927 [2 folders].
PGH Class of 1963 collection, c. early 1900s 0.1 Cubic feet.
Elizabeth Gavula PGH collection, 1975-1994 0.1 Cubic feet.
Certified copy of Alice Fisher's birth certificate, July 16, 1999
Nurses of Pennsylvania March on Harrisburg VHS, 1997
PGH History Project, circa 1977-1985
PGH Silverware: fork, spoon, knife., undated
Betty Estelow Halloween postcard, 1950s?
Philadelphia General Hospital Announcement of Courses, 1925-1926, 1925
Double frill cap, undated
Alumni Association Bulletins: Fall 2004, Winter 2005, May 2005 (last issue), 2004-2005
PGH Nursing Procedure Book: Contagious Disease Service, August 1961
Stephanie Stachniewicz collection of PGH-related materials, accompanied by a set of Scientific American offprints, 1966-2006
Helen Kane PGH pin, 1918
PGH postcard, 1936, and photo of unidentified nurse, undated
Gizella Smith collection of PGH materials, 1929-1988 [5 folders].
"Put Here to Scrub" by Louise Fahl Bhoy (memoir of PGH), circa 1991? 02 Linear feet.
Dorothy del Bueno medal, photograph of the class of 1962, and frill, circa 1962
Photograph: nurse in snow, undated
2 programs: PGH lecture series, "Nurses in Cinema"; Historical marker, 2007
Yearbook, Scope of the Class of 1941, 1941
Cape, 1941
Yearbook, Scope of the Class of 1938, with signatures
Diploma for Frances Josephine Cieslinska, 1938
Framed picture of Frances
Alice Fisher memorial booklet
Correspondence from Barbara Bates to Nadine Landis regarding tuberculosis (TB) and Mary Mahony
Contact
These materials are held by University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing. Contact them to schedule a visit or ask about your research.
- Address
- 418 Curie Boulevard, Floor 2U, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4217
- nhistory@nursing.upenn.edu