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Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia records

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Call Number:
MC 5B
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
Extent:
23.8 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia records, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1855-1987 (inclusive)
Creator:
Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia
Form:
Administrative records
Abstract:
The records of the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia document a wide range of themes and issues in home nursing and the care of the indigent poor. The collection includes trustees' minutes, board correspondence, committee reports, and branch association files. Also included is a well documented collection of photographs.

On March 2, 1886, a group of Philadelphia women gathered to establish an organization to give nursing care to the sick in their homes. They named it the District Nurse Society after a system employed in Britain. Mrs. William Furness Jenks founded the organization (which was later renamed Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia in 1887). She recalled that, "No one had ever heard of such a thing as nursing the sick poor except in hospitals." Only Buffalo and Boston preceded Philadelphia in bringing this innovation to the United States. Mrs. Jenks envisioned a voluntary organization which would assist the contagiously and chronically ill who were turned away from institutions or who needed additional help during childbirth. Churches, relief organizations, and individuals contributed food, clothing, bed linens, and money to the organization.

In its first year, the organization made 380 home visits. Most of these visits were to run-down areas which housed the city's workers. Many were immigrants from Europe and Blacks from the rural South. Typhoid and diphtheria were common among the poor. Tuberculosis, the "great white plague," reached epidemic proportions during the nineteenth century and was a leading cause of death. The Society applied new concepts about the treatment of these diseases after it became known that they were communicable. The nurses sought to isolate tuberculosis patients and to educate them and their families about the role of personal habits and hygiene in reducing the risk of contamination. As one early officer of the organization explained, the nurses also did many things which were not technically nursing but were considered important to it, such as "cleaning the sick room of lumber and unnecessary furniture, sweeping floors, and lighting fires." The nurse was expected "to set an example of that neatness, order, sobriety, and obedience which she was to impress upon others." The work was so exhausting that few of the nurses employed by the Society in its first decade stayed more than eighteen months.

More than half the cases involved maternity and child care. The nurse aided physicians with home deliveries and made follow-up visits to help the mothers bathe and feed the newborns. They also provided care and instruction for expectant mothers to reduce infant mortality. During the early 1900s the Society joined with physicians, city officials, and social workers in a movement to educate the public about recent discoveries which showed that many once-fatal and debilitating illnesses could be prevented. Because of its familiarity with neighborhood health and social conditions, the Society was a valued member of this crusade. It staged dramatic exhibits about tuberculosis as well as festive events like Better Baby contests to spread the gospel of improved child care. In 1903, the Society cooperated with the city's Bureau of Public Charities to conduct a medical inspection to reduce the incidence of ringworm, pink eye, and nutritional disorders such as rickets among schoolchildren. This was the beginning of the school nursing program that was taken over by the city in 1908. From 1905-1908 the Society stationed a nurse at Starr Centre Association of Philadelphia, 7th and Lombard, to help with maternity and child care clinics, vaccination drives, nutritionally sound "penny lunch" programs, and in distributing inspected milk.

World War I accelerated the growth of the nursing profession and the demand for home care. With this development, the Society turned to new groups of clients and new interests. Between 1913 and 1922, the Society caseload nearly doubled. In 1925, the Society described itself as "a visiting hospital with wards all over the city corresponding to the various branches." It employed more than 80 nurses in a downtown building and at several branch offices including Kensington (opened 1896), Manayunk (1901), Germantown (1902), and West Philadelphia (1903). The Society borrowed public relations techniques from hospitals with whom it was now competing for patients. Society branch staffs were encouraged to enlist neighborhood people to serve on home nursing committees and fundraisers and to keep the central office in touch with the needs of each locality. Brochures emphasized that all of the Society's nurses were hospital-trained. The Society was still actively involved in the treatment of communicable diseases, maternity, and child care, but it was no longer an exclusively low-income patient population. Contracts with insurance companies and manufacturing firms to provide care for industrial policy-holders brought annual caseloads to record highs of 40,000 or more in the late 1920s. Seventy percent of the patients were less than 45 years of age. By 1920, the Society was also treating a greater number of older patients in a new occupational therapy program. The Society added a mental hygiene supervisor in 1934. A decade later, physical therapy (1943) and orthopedic service (1944) became mainstays of the Society's program.

Society superintendent Katherine Tucker (1916-1928) and her successor, Ruth Weaver Hubbard (1928-1955), were instrumental in transforming the organization from a multipurpose home welfare agency into a modern professional nursing organization. Both women held offices in the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and helped widen educational opportunities for home nurses. They also developed the Society internship program which allowed nursing students to complete in-service training at the Society.

Despite the progressive leadership of its professional staff and board, the Society lost half its revenues when insurance companies, which had previously contracted for home nursing, terminated these arrangements after World Ward II. The Society also lost some of its traditional clients to city programs for maternity cases and preventive care. These problems were addressed in the Philadelphia Public Health Survey produced by the City Planning Commission in 1950. The Commission recommended a merger of the nursing activities of the City and voluntary home care agencies. The City invited Society director Hubbard to help merge City and private home care services into a single operation. Negotiations continued until May 1959, when the Society's president, Mrs. Samuel Y. Gibbon, joined City Health Commissioner Dr. James Dixon and Mayor Richardon Dilworth to create Community Nursing Services of Philadelphia (CNS).

Plans for CNS focused on the health center: a multiservice facility for consolidating public and voluntary nursing programs. Before 1959, the Society primarily did home bedside care while City nurses worked in Department of Public Health clinics, making house calls as required by their work in child hygiene, tuberculosis, and venereal disease. Before the creation of CNS, it was possible for both Society nurse and city nurse to call on a single family. Under CNS, each nurse would be a general practitioner who could administer bedside care as well as preventive treatment. The centers would serve all residents of a designated area, in much the same fashion used in the combined Starr Centre Association/Society branch office opened in Germantown in 1944. This pilot project became the model for dividing the city into health districts based on a Planning Commission scheme for using census tracts as the unit for organizing health services on a uniform geographical basis. Actually, the plan built on the Society system for conducting generalized nursing out of its branches. With this framework in place, CNS made rapid progress under Directors Dorothy Wilson and Margaret Kauffman toward integrating nursing personnel and caseloads in all ten City health districts.

During the late 1970s the environment for providing home health services in the public and private sectors underwent many changes which led the Society and city officials to reorganize their relationships. Today the city contracts for home nursing services through CNS's successor—an independent, voluntary nonprofit organization, Community Home Health Services of Philadelphia (CHHSP), created in 1979. The Visiting Nurse Society is now a foundation which is a leading source of support for CHHSP's work with the indigent.

One change has been increased care for the elderly. In 1951, 72 percent of Society's patients suffered from long-term illnesses. Some participated in its intensive Home Care Plan (1949), an early attempt to coordinate medical and social services for the chronically ill. More recently, the Society and its successor, CHHSP, have sought to develop programs that address medical and personal consequences of cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and mental changes associated with aging. Medicare, created in 1965, increased public funding for these services. In 1985, over 68 percent of CHHSP's patients were over 65 years of age.

Another contemporary characteristic is size. In 1886 the Society began with one room, one nurse, one table, and $100. In 1985 its successor, Community Home Health Services of Philadelphia, made 220,000 visits and had an operating budget of $9 million. At one time, the Society was the only professional organization involved in home nursing. Today it is part of a complex national health industry transformed by science, technology, and public oversight. Plans, procedures, and methods have also changed with the needs of the patients.

Despite innovations in financing and fundraising, home nursing still retains elements that were present a hundred years ago. CHHSP is an active presence in the health and medical communities. Both historical roles-those of health educator and health planner-continue to find a place in its work.

The records of the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia document a wide range of themes and issues in home nursing and the care of the indigent poor. It dates from the inception of the visiting nurse movement in the United States in the 1880s and continues up through 1977. The collection includes trustees' minutes, board correspondence, committee reports, and branch association files. There is also a significant amount of material documenting the Society's role in the public health crusades of 1902-1918, including school nursing services, infant and maternity care, and care of tuberculosis patients. Other material represents the impact of hospitals on home nursing beginning in the 1920s, as well as the efforts of agency officials to respond to the needs of an aging population especially after World War II. There are also files relating to the Philadelphia Home Care Plan (1949-1960s) and Community Nursing Services of Philadelphia (1959 1979) which was planned and run conjointly with the City of Philadelphia. Also included is a well-documented collection of photographs, many of which were reproduced in the Society's annual reports at the turn of the century.

A scrapbook of newspaper clippings 1918-1919, select meetings and minutes, and select annual reports have been digitized as part of our online exhibit of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic- Calm, Cool, Courageous- at https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/publications/calm-cool-courageous/.

Please contact the Center for more information about the online digitized materials as well as access to those digitized clippings not available online at this time.

Gift of G. Lloyd Kirk.

See also: MC 38, Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia records.

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University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
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Center staff, updated by Bethany Myers
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

This series includes materials documenting the Society's founding and early activities. It provides perhaps the best overview, from an administrative perspective, of the activities of the Board of Managers. By 1916, the day to day administrative work of the Society gradually shifted to Katherine Tucker, the Society's first superintendent. Included in this series is the original charter of the Society and subsequent revisions (1887-1912); bylaws and subsequent revisions; a complete run of annual reports (1886-1987); minutes of the Board of Managers (1886-1986), its Executive Committee (1912-1919), and of the Society's annual meetings. The correspondence files include incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Board (1921-1982) and selected correspondence with coordinated funding agencies. There are also a few contemporary files dealing with issues such as minority representation on the Board and policies relating to conflicts of interest.

Original charter, 1887.
Box 1 Folder 1
Other charters, 1887-1912.
Box 1 Folder 2
1959.
Box 1 Folder 3
1965.
Box 1 Folder 4
1965 and 1978.
Box 1 Folder 5
1886-1901.
Box 1 Folder 6
1886-1906.
Box 1 Folder 7
1889-1911.
Box 1 Folder 8
1902-1914.
Box 2 Folder 9
1902-1916.
Box 2 Folder 10
1916-1924.
Box 2 Folder 11
1916-1924.
Box 3 Folder 12
1916-1936.
Box 3 Folder 13
1931-1957.
Box 3 Folder 14
1966-1987.
Box 3 Folder 15
1886-1891.
Box 3 Folder 16
1892-1895.
Box 3 Folder 17
1896-1899.
Box 3 Folder 18
1900-1905.
Box 3 Folder 19
1906-1909.
Box 4 Folder 20
1910-1913.
Box 4 Folder 21
1914-1916.
Box 4 Folder 22
Minutes, Executive Committee, 1912-1916.
Box 4 Folder 23
Minutes, Executive Committee, 1916-1919.
Box 4 Folder 24
1886-1888.
Box 5 Folder 25
1888-1889.
Box 5 Folder 26
1889-1890.
Box 5 Folder 27
1890-1891.
Box 5 Folder 28
1892-1896.
Box 5 Folder 29
1896-1898.
Box 5 Folder 30
1898-1900.
Box 5 Folder 31
1899-1902.
Box 5 Folder 33
1902-1904.
Box 5 Folder 34
1904-1908.
Box 6 Folder 35
1908-1913.
Box 6 Folder 36
1913-1919.
Box 6 Folder 37
1919.
Box 6 Folder 38
1920.
Box 6 Folder 39
1921.
Box 6 Folder 40
1922.
Box 6 Folder 41
1923.
Box 6 Folder 42
1924.
Box 6 Folder 43
1925.
Box 6 Folder 44
1926.
Box 7 Folder 45
1927.
Box 7 Folder 46
1928.
Box 7 Folder 47
1929.
Box 7 Folder 48
1930.
Box 7 Folder 49
1931.
Box 7 Folder 50
1932.
Box 7 Folder 51
1933.
Box 7 Folder 52
1934.
Box 7 Folder 53
1935.
Box 7 Folder 54
1936.
Box 7 Folder 55
1937.
Box 7 Folder 56
1938.
Box 7 Folder 57
1939.
Box 7 Folder 58
1940.
Box 7 Folder 59
1941.
Box 7 Folder 60
1942.
Box 7 Folder 61
1943.
Box 7 Folder 62
1944.
Box 7 Folder 63
1945.
Box 8 Folder 64
1946.
Box 8 Folder 65
1947.
Box 8 Folder 66
1948.
Box 8 Folder 67
1949.
Box 8 Folder 68
1950.
Box 8 Folder 69
1951.
Box 8 Folder 70
1952.
Box 8 Folder 71
1953.
Box 8 Folder 72
1954.
Box 8 Folder 73
1955.
Box 8 Folder 74
1956.
Box 8 Folder 75
1957.
Box 8 Folder 76
1958.
Box 8 Folder 77
1959.
Box 8 Folder 78
1960.
Box 8 Folder 79
1962.
Box 8 Folder 80
1962.
Box 8 Folder 81
1963.
Box 9 Folder 82
1964.
Box 9 Folder 83
1965.
Box 9 Folder 84
1966.
Box 9 Folder 85
1967.
Box 9 Folder 86
1968.
Box 9 Folder 87
1969.
Box 9 Folder 88
1970.
Box 9 Folder 89
1971.
Box 9 Folder 90
1972.
Box 9 Folder 91
1973.
Box 9 Folder 92
1974.
Box 9 Folder 93
1975.
Box 10 Folder 94
1976.
Box 10 Folder 95
June 1977.
Box 10 Folder 96
August - December 1977.
Box 10 Folder 97
January - July 1978.
Box 10 Folder 98
August - December 1978.
Box 10 Folder 99
1979.
Box 10 Folder 100
1980.
Box 11 Folder 101
1981.
Box 11 Folder 102
1982.
Box 11 Folder 103
1983.
Box 11 Folder 104
1984.
Box 11 Folder 105
1985-1986.
Box 11 Folder 106
Minutes, Board, photocopied, 1886-1889.
Box 11 Folder 107
Minutes, Board, photocopied, 1889-1891.
Box 11 Folder 108
1887-1915.
Box 12 Folder 109a
1916-1946.
Box 12 Folder 109b
1925-1931.
Box 12 Folder 110
1933-1935.
Box 12 Folder 111
1936-1939.
Box 12 Folder 112a
1940-1944.
Box 12 Folder 112b
1945-1949.
Box 13 Folder 113
1950-1968.
Box 13 Folder 114
Minutes, Nursing Executives Responsibilities, 1911-1957.
Box 13 Folder 115
1921-1952.
Box 13 Folder 116
1953-1971.
Box 13 Folder 117
1972-1979.
Box 13 Folder 118
1980-1982.
Box 13 Folder 119
Correspondence, with Community Fund, Community Chest, United Fund.
Box 14 Folder 120
Treasurer's report, 1952-1979.
Box 14 Folder 121
Board members reference guide, 1953.
Box 14 Folder 122
Board members, 1967-1987.
Box 14 Folder 123
Representation of minorities, 1970-1975.
Box 14 Folder 124
Conflict of interest policy, 1977-1978.
Box 14 Folder 125
Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia, 1961.
Box 53 Folder 3
Dick Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1986.
Box 14 Folder 126

Scope and Contents

This small series consists of published and unpublished histories by and about the Society ranging in date from 1915 to 1974; biographies of Board members including three folders about Ruth Weaver Hubbard, the Society's general director from 1929 to 1955. There are also a few files dealing with Board matters of antiquarian interest such as the restoration of several historical plaques.

1915.
Box 14 Folder 1
1919.
Box 14 Folder 2
1925.
Box 14 Folder 3
1936.
Box 14 Folder 4
1937.
Box 14 Folder 5
1938.
Box 14 Folder 6
1943.
Box 14 Folder 7
1944.
Box 14 Folder 8
1951.
Box 14 Folder 9
1956.
Box 14 Folder 10
1960.
Box 14 Folder 11
1960.
Box 14 Folder 12
1960.
Box 14 Folder 13
1960.
Box 14 Folder 14
1960.
Box 14 Folder 15
1965.
Box 14 Folder 16
1965.
Box 14 Folder 17
1974.
Box 14 Folder 18
Articles and letters, 1940-1952.
Box 14 Folder 20
Articles and letters, 1953-1955.
Box 15 Folder 21
Biographical information.
Box 15 Folder 22
VNS plaque restoration, 1980-1902[?].
Box 15 Folder 23

Scope and Contents

Found within this series are the files of the Society's committees including the Advisory Committee (1973-1976), Budget Committee (1965-1979), Local Committee, Medical Advisory Committee (1936-1967), Men's Finance Committee (1935-1979), Nominating Committee (1952-1976), Nurses Committee (1919-1946), Public Relations Committee (1947-1977), Supervisor Conference/Staff Council (1945-1960), Personnel Committee (1967-1979), and Social Service Committee.

Administrative Committee, 1976.
Box 15 Folder 1
To the Executive Director, 1973-1976.
Box 15 Folder 2
To the Executive Director review of management positions.
Box 15 Folder 3
Budget Committee, 1965-1979.
Box 15 Folder 4
Committee on Local Committees.
Box 15 Folder 5
Committee on Local Committees Development.
Box 15 Folder 6
Membership list.
Box 15 Folder 7
Medical Advisory Committee review of standing orders.
Box 15 Folder 8
Medical Advisory Committee, 1936-1967.
Box 15 Folder 9
Men's Finance Committee, 1935-1965.
Box 15 Folder 10
Men's Finance Committee, 1966-1979.
Box 15 Folder 11
Nominating Committee, 1952-1976.
Box 15 Folder 12
Minutes, 1919-1934.
Box 16 Folder 13
Minutes, 1935-1946.
Box 16 Folder 14
Supervisor conference/staff council, 1945-1960.
Box 16 Folder 15
Nurses monthly report, 1913.
Box 16 Folder 16
Personnel Committee, 1967-1979.
Box 16 Folder 17
Minutes, 1947-1957.
Box 16 Folder 18
Minutes, 1957-1977.
Box 16 Folder 19
Social Service Committee.
Box 16 Folder 20

Scope and Contents

This series includes a variety of materials used for public relations purposes. This series consists of material that was created by the Public Relations Committee or by other sources whose origin is not apparent in the records. Although most of the documents were created and used in the post 1950s era, there are some brochures, pamphlets and press releases as early as 1915. Some typical examples of this series include fact sheets, radio and television scripts, and publicity relating to anniversary years.

Brochures and pamphlets, 1915-1960s.
Box 16 Folder 1
Press releases, 1915-1976.
Box 16 Folder 2
VNS of Philadelphia "Girard Letter", 1936.
Box 17 Folder 3
60th anniversary, 1946.
Box 17 Folder 4
Fact sheet for volunteer speakers, 1947-1951.
Box 17 Folder 5
VNS scripts for radio and television.
Box 17 Folder 6
Script for slide lecture, 1954-1957.
Box 17 Folder 7
Dear Friend fund raising appeal, 1954-1965.
Box 17 Folder 8
70th anniversary, 1956.
Box 17 Folder 9
PR material from other agencies.
Box 17 Folder 10
75th anniversary, 1961.
Box 17 Folder 11
Nurse recruitment, 1961-1970.
Box 17 Folder 12
80th anniversary, 1966.
Box 17 Folder 13
PR survey, 1975.
Box 18 Folder 14
1957-1975.
Box 18 Folder 15
1976-1984.
Box 18 Folder 16
VNS/CNS service recognition tea, 1979.
Box 18 Folder 17

Scope and Contents

In an effort to offer the Society's services to new population distributions in Philadelphia, and perhaps to attract middle class patients, the Society opened several branch offices in other parts of the city. The first was the Germantown Branch (later renamed the Germantown and Chestnut Hill Branch) whose records begin in 1933. This was followed by the West Branch (1937), South Philadelphia Branch (1939), Frankford Branch (1947), North Branch (1957), Northeast Branch (1957), Northwest Branch (1958), and the South Philadelphia Branch (1939). This series, arranged alphabetically by branch, also includes one file describing the branch boundaries in 1959. The files of the Germantown and Chestnut Hill Branch and the Northwest Branch are the most complete with minutes, bylaws, correspondence, and financial files.

Branches, boundaries, 1959.
Box 18 Folder 1
Committee, Local, Financial Records, 1947-1952.
Box 18 Folder 2
Clippings.
Box 18 Folder 3
Germantown clippings, 1933-1970s.
Box 18 Folder 4
Account sheets, 1944-1964.
Box 18 Folder 5
Brochures.
Box 18 Folder 6
Committee representatives, 1928-1930.
Box 18 Folder 7
Bylaws, 1932-1954.
Box 18 Folder 8
1933-1943.
Box 18 Folder 9
1933-1943.
Box 18 Folder 10
1944-1947.
Box 19 Folder 11
1948-1952.
Box 19 Folder 12
Annual reports, 1931-1952.
Box 19 Folder 13
Officers, 1957.
Box 19 Folder 14
Health Districts 5 and 6, 1965-1968.
Box 19 Folder 15
Northeast Branch, receipts and expenditures, 1957-1962.
Box 19 Folder 16
Correspondence and reports, 1958-1963.
Box 19 Folder 17
Correspondence and reports, 1972-1976.
Box 19 Folder 18
Account sheets, 1972-1976.
Box 19 Folder 19
Bank statements, 1975-1976.
Box 19 Folder 20
McNeil Trust, investment statements.
Box 19 Folder 21
Checking and savings account, 1976-1982.
Box 19 Folder 22
Committee Membership Lists, 1959-1976.
Box 20 Folder 23
1952-1955.
Box 20 Folder 24
1956-1959.
Box 20 Folder 25
1960-1968.
Box 20 Folder 26
1974-1977.
Box 20 Folder 27
1979-1982.
Box 20 Folder 28
Volunteers.
Box 20 Folder 29
Volunteer manual.
Box 20 Folder 30
Committee, 1939-1970.
Box 20 Folder 31
Minutes, 1937-1942.
Box 20 Folder 32
Committee membership lists, 1961-1967.
Box 20 Folder 33

Scope and Contents

This series includes nursing service programs either sponsored by the Society or by other agencies with the Society. It includes the files of Com¬munity Home Health Services of Philadelphia (1980-1984) and the yearbooks of the Child Federation of Philadelphia (1914-1915). There are also files relating to the Community Nursing Services of Philadelphia (1955-1979), a program coordinated by the Health and Welfare Council which ran conjointly the nursing programs of the City of Philadelphia with those of the Society. This includes background material, board member registers, manuals, minutes, annual reports, correspondence, evaluations and proposals, and financial reports. Also included are some correspondence files with the Health and Welfare Council (1949-1979); and general files about the Philadelphia Home Care Plan (1958-1965) and other nursing agencies.

Auditor's reports, 1980-1981.
Box 20 Folder 1
PR, brochures, reports.
Box 21 Folder 2
Long range strategic plans, 1984.
Box 21 Folder 3
Yearbooks, 1914-1915.
Box 21 Folder 4
1955.
Box 21 Folder 5
1955.
Box 21 Folder 6
1960.
Box 21 Folder 7
1961.
Box 21 Folder 8
1961.
Box 21 Folder 9
1953.
Box 21 Folder 10
1959-1979.
Box 21 Folder 11
1959.
Box 21 Folder 12
1961.
Box 21 Folder 13
1979.
Box 21 Folder 14
1979 (copy 2).
Box 21 Folder 15
October 1974.
Box 21 Folder 16
December 1974.
Box 21 Folder 17
January-February 1975.
Box 21 Folder 18
March 12, 1975.
Box 21 Folder 19
April 1975.
Box 21 Folder 20
May-June 1975.
Box 21 Folder 21
July 1975.
Box 21 Folder 22
1973-1974.
Box 21 Folder 23
1975.
Box 21 Folder 24
Correspondence and proposals, 1950-1957.
Box 21 Folder 25
Department of Health.
Box 21 Folder 26
Correspondence and proposals, 1958-1959.
Box 21 Folder 27
Combining Public Health Nursing Agencies.
Box 22 Folder 28
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania evaluation, 1975.
Box 22 Folder 29
Evaluations and proposals, 1977.
Box 22 Folder 30
1961.
Box 22 Folder 31
1962.
Box 22 Folder 32
1963.
Box 22 Folder 33
1964.
Box 22 Folder 34
1965.
Box 22 Folder 35
1966.
Box 22 Folder 36
1967.
Box 22 Folder 37
1968.
Box 22 Folder 38
1968, special.
Box 22 Folder 39
1969.
Box 22 Folder 40
1970.
Box 22 Folder 41
1970.
Box 22 Folder 42
Financial statements, 1971-1979.
Box 22 Folder 43
Correspondence, 1956-1964.
Box 23 Folder 44
Committee on Public Health Nursing Services, 1953.
Box 23 Folder 45
Community Nursing Services, Inc.: A Proposal, 1955.
Box 23 Folder 46
Community Nursing Services, Inc.: A Proposal, 1955, Copy 2.
Box 23 Folder 47
Report.
Box 23 Folder 48
Report.
Box 23 Folder 49
Reports on public health nursing, 1949-1953.
Box 23 Folder 50
Interim report by GLS Associates, 1978.
Box 23 Folder 51
Printed materials, public relations.
Box 23 Folder 52
Printed materials, public relations.
Box 24 Folder 53
Printed materials, public relations.
Box 24 Folder 54
January 1976 - January 1979.
Box 24 Folder 55
November 1972 - November 1975.
Box 24 Folder 56
Community Nursing Services Report by H. Wilbert, 1946.
Box 24 Folder 57
Cns report on red hook.
Box 24 Folder 58
Staff nurses, 1953-1972.
Box 24 Folder 59
Home care survey, 1976.
Box 24 Folder 60
Committee, Program, April 1975.
Box 24 Folder 61
Agreement between City and VNS, 1959.
Box 24 Folder 62
Agreement between City and VNS, April 1961 - January 1979.
Box 24 Folder 63
Reports, 1947-1956.
Box 24 Folder 64
Correspondence, 1958-1963.
Box 24 Folder 65
Reports, 1960s.
Box 24 Folder 66
Biographies on home care, 1958-1960.
Box 25 Folder 67
Pamphlets, 1953-1965.
Box 25 Folder 68
Brochures from other agencies, 1960s-1970s.
Box 25 Folder 69
National Organizations of Public Health Nursing.
Box 25 Folder 70
Public health nursing general information.
Box 25 Folder 71
Public health nursing curriculum guide.
Box 25 Folder 72
Visiting nurse associations in the U.S., list, 1954.
Box 25 Folder 73
VNS role in public health services.
Box 25 Folder 74
Auditor's report.
Box 25 Folder 75
Bylaws.
Box 25 Folder 76
Information.
Box 25 Folder 77
December 1929 - November 1935.
Box 29 Folder 35
1935-1940.
Box 31 Folder 36
December 1933 - November 1934.
Box 31 Folder 37
Donations, 1941-1950.
Box 31 Folder 38
Donations, 1951-1959.
Box 32 Folder 40
1920-1935.
Box 32 Folder 41
1922-1933.
Box 32 Folder 42
Donations, 1972-1977.
Box 32 Folder 43
Donations, 1978-1982.
Box 32 Folder 44
Anna E. Rohrman Fund.
Box 32 Folder 45
Charles J. Biddle Fund, 1973.
Box 32 Folder 46
Dolan Scholarship Fund, 1930-1973.
Box 32 Folder 47
Donation from patients, 1970-1975.
Box 33 Folder 48
Gifts to endowment fund, 1886-1945.
Box 33 Folder 49
Lily Dungan Shalcross Fund.
Box 33 Folder 50
Loan funds, 1947.
Box 33 Folder 51
Margery Eiseman Fund, 1972-1981.
Box 33 Folder 52
Margery Eiseman Fund, 1974-1978.
Box 33 Folder 53
Mary Mundy Fund.
Box 33 Folder 54
Mrs. Richard K. Stevens Fund.
Box 33 Folder 55
Articles of incorporation.
Box 33 Folder 56
1956-1957.
Box 33 Folder 57
1957.
Box 33 Folder 58
1958-1961.
Box 33 Folder 59
1958-1962.
Box 34 Folder 60
Correspondence, 1956-1957.
Box 34 Folder 61
Correspondence, 1956-1957.
Box 34 Folder 62
Educational Committee meeting.
Box 34 Folder 63
Educational Committee meeting minutes.
Box 34 Folder 64
1956-1969.
Box 34 Folder 65
Bank statements.
Box 34 Folder 66
Treasurer's reports.
Box 34 Folder 67
Investments, 1956-1969.
Box 34 Folder 68
Receipts, 1956-1961.
Box 35 Folder 69
Merger with VNS.
Box 35 Folder 70
1956-1965.
Box 35 Folder 71
Awarded, 1964.
Box 35 Folder 72
1967-1973.
Box 35 Folder 73
1966-1967.
Box 35 Folder 74
1968.
Box 35 Folder 75
Reviewed, 1969-1978.
Box 35 Folder 76
Scholarship publicity, 1956-1970.
Box 36 Folder 77
Special purpose and endowment funds, 1961-1965.
Box 36 Folder 78

Scope and Contents

This series includes the reports of the Society's auditor (1924-1970), cash books (1950-1960), correspondence (1945-1977), cost analyses and custodial accounts (1954-1968), and financial statements (1971-1986). There are also files describing the various general and named funds of the Society. This includes scholarships, endowed nurses, and donations to patients. Most notable is the Ruth Weaver Hubbard Foundation providing scholarship money to nurses interested in public health work. There are also agreements with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the John Hancock Company for patient care. The Society maintained several ledger books which are files in this series recording funds received from and expended on behalf of the Welfare Federation (1930-1936), its succeeding agency, the Community Fund of Philadelphia (1936-1949). The Society also maintained a general ledger for the years 1949 through 1956.

1923-1927.
Box 25 Folder 1
1929-1933.
Box 25 Folder 2
1934.
Box 25 Folder 3
1935.
Box 25 Folder 4
1936.
Box 26 Folder 5
1937-1938.
Box 26 Folder 6
1939-1940.
Box 26 Folder 7
1941-1942.
Box 26 Folder 8
1943-1944.
Box 26 Folder 9
1945-1947.
Box 26 Folder 10
1948-1950.
Box 26 Folder 11
1951-1953.
Box 26 Folder 12
1954-1956.
Box 27 Folder 13
1956-1959.
Box 27 Folder 14
1960-1961.
Box 27 Folder 15
1961-1963.
Box 27 Folder 16
1964-1967.
Box 27 Folder 17
1968-1978.
Box 27 Folder 18
Automobile accident reports, 1966-1970.
Box 27 Folder 19
Bellevue Stratford Corporation securities, 1979-1981.
Box 28 Folder 20
Cashbooks, 1950-1954 and 1954-1957.
Box 28 Folder 21
Cashbooks, 1957-1960.
Box 28 Folder 22
Correspondence, 1945-1977.
Box 28 Folder 23
1954-1958.
Box 28 Folder 24
1960-1964.
Box 28 Folder 25
Cost analysis.
Box 29 Folder 27
Custodial accounts, 1960-1961.
Box 28 Folder 26
Statistics, 1963.
Box 29 Folder 28
Time and cost studies, 1963.
Box 29 Folder 29
1971-1973.
Box 29 Folder 30
1974-1976.
Box 29 Folder 31
1977-1980.
Box 29 Folder 32
1981-1983.
Box 29 Folder 33
1984-1986.
Box 29 Folder 34
Income tax, 1955-1959.
Box 36 Folder 79
1974-1976.
Box 36 Folder 80
1976-1977.
Box 36 Folder 81
1978-1979.
Box 36 Folder 82
Welfare Federation, financial statements, 1930-1936.
Box 52 Folder 4
1936-1944.
Box 52 Folder 5
1944-1949.
Box 52 Folder 6
General ledger, 1949-1956.
Box 52 Folder 7
Medical Health and Welfare Association.
Box 36 Folder 83
Medical Health and Welfare Association statements, 1946-1960.
Box 36 Folder 84
Pensions, miscellaneous reports, 1944-1958.
Box 37 Folder 85
Schurer, Mathilda, 1932-1953.
Box 37 Folder 87
Hamilton, Mary Jane, 1960-1961.
Box 37 Folder 88
Receipts, December 1932-November 1933.
Box 37 Folder 89
Receipts, 1933-1934.
Box 37 Folder 90
Scholarship applications, 1975-1976.
Box 37 Folder 91
Scholarship applications, 1977-1978.
Box 37 Folder 92
Statement of assets, 1975-1979.
Box 37 Folder 93
Stock and bond register, 1922-1934.
Box 38 Folder 94
Workman's compensation claims, 1951-1963.
Box 38 Folder 95
Workman's compensation claims, 1964-1969.
Box 38 Folder 96
VNS agreement with Metropolitan Life, 1933.
Box 38 Folder 97
VNS agreement with John Hancock.
Box 38 Folder 98
Workman's compensation claims, 1935-1960.
Box 38 Folder 99
Yarnall, Biddle & Co., 1967-1976.
Box 38 Folder 100

Scope and Contents

This is a small series that documents the properties acquired by and owned by the Society. In addition to the Society's properties, this series also includes the deed to the Starr Centre Association of Philadelphia, which the Society later acquired.

Agreement with Philadelphia Trust Co., 1925.
Box 38 Folder 1
Land titles and deed, 1855-1911.
Flatfile 5 Folder 1
Girard Trust Company agreements, 1857-1968.
Box 38 Folder 2
Office at 1340 Lombard Street, 1905-1964.
Box 38 Folder 3
Office at 311 South Juniper Street, 1961-1979.
Box 38 Folder 4
Starr Centre Association of Philadelphia Land Title Deed, 1905-1961.
Box 39 Folder 5

Scope and Contents

A variety of clippings, newspaper supplements, pamphlets, and manuals make up this series. Most of the materials promote the Society's work, others address broader social reform issues such as Mrs. James T. Fields' "How to Help the Poor." There are also some clippings relating to the Starr Centre Association of Philadelphia.

How to Help the Poor, by Mrs. James T. Fields.
Box 39 Folder 1
Alice Lippincott Memorial, 1898.
Box 39 Folder 2
Public Health Nursing, 1946.
Box 39 Folder 3
VNS Handbook, 1959.
Box 39 Folder 4
Florence Nightingale to Gil Wylie, Correspondence (facsimile), 1872.
Box 39 Folder 5
VNS nursing manuals, 1925-1947.
Box 39 Folder 6
Sunday Bulletin Magazine, 1964.
Box 52 Folder 1
Clippings, scrapbook, 1918.
Box 52 Folder 2
1886-1915.
Box 39 Folder 7
1916-1933.
Box 40 Folder 8
1943-1977.
Box 40 Folder 9
1886-1907.
Box 40 Folder 10
1908-1915.
Box 40 Folder 11
1916.
Box 40 Folder 12
1917-1933.
Box 40 Folder 13
1943-1959.
Box 40 Folder 14
1960-1977.
Box 41 Folder 15
1917-1958.
Box 41 Folder 16
Your United Fund column.
Box 41 Folder 17
Manuals and pamphlets, duplicates.
Box 41 Folder 18
Pamphlets and annual reports, duplicates.
Box 41 Folder 19
Terra Cotta pieces, undated.
Box 41 Folder 20

Scope and Contents

The photographs making up this series are largely from the twentieth century. The Society, like other reform groups of the era, used photographic images to communicate their message to broader audiences. Once it became economical to reproduce photographs in publications, the Society's use of photographs increased dramatically. The Society reproduced many of the photographs found in this series in their annual reports beginning in 1907. For a complete visual record of the Society's activities, consult the annual reports in "Series I. Administration." Due to the nature and use of photographs by the Society, this series has been divided into two subseries of representing photographs created between 1900 to 1939, and 1940 to 1986. Within each subseries, they are divided into exterior and interior images and thereunder by subject of the images, i.e. general, group, nurses, people, etc.

The new home of the visiting nurse society, 1911.
Box 42 Photo 1
Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia offices, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 2
Visiting nurse with woman and child, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 3
Visiting nurse entering building, 189?.
Box 42 Photo 4
Nurse chatting with old woman, 1925.
Box 42 Photo 5
Eight nurses on front steps of Lippincott House, 1907.
Box 42 Photo 5.5
Nine nurses ready for work, 1909.
Box 42 Photo 6
Thirteen visiting nurses leaving for work, 193?.
Box 42 Photo 7
Harriet Frost, a visiting nurse 191?.
Box 42 Photo 8
Harriet Frost sweeping, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 9
Mrs. Parker sitting in a chair, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 10
Mrs. Parker sitting in a chair, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 11
Woman and child on Percy street, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 12
Sale of patients' work, 1921.
Box 42 Photo 13
Sale of patients' handicrafts, 1921.
Box 42 Photo 14
Christmas packages ready for delivery, 1927.
Box 42 Photo 15
Nurse in white treating middle-aged woman, 1925.
Box 42 Photo 16
Nurse with chronically ill woman, 1910.
Box 42 Photo 17
Nurse taking elderly woman's pulse, 1914.
Box 42 Photo 18
Nurse taking elderly woman's pulse, 1914.
Box 42 Photo 18.1
Nurse with paralyzed, blind, old woman, 1915.
Box 42 Photo 19
Nurse with paralyzed, blind, old woman, 1915.
Box 42 Photo 19.1
Nurse attends to seated elderly woman, 1912.
Box 42 Photo 20
Nurse caring for man with tuberculosis, 1936.
Box 42 Photo 21
Nurse caring for mother and newborn twins, 1912.
Box 42 Photo 22
Nurse holding malnutritioned boy, 1886.
Box 42 Photo 23
Nurse with two mothers and their children, 1912.
Box 42 Photo 24
Nurse with two mothers and their children, 1912.
Box 42 Photo 24.1
Nurse with two babies, 1908.
Box 42 Photo 25
Nurse with mother, child and twins, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 26
Nurse bathes baby while mother and three daughters look on, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 27
Nurse taking boy's pulse, 1919.
Box 42 Photo 28
Nurse with mother holding twins, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 29
Nurse at elementary school, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 30
Nurse pays post-natal visit, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 31
Nurse with woman and two children, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 32
Nurse and mother with two boys, 1908.
Box 42 Photo 33
Nurse and mother with two boys, 1908.
Box 42 Photo 33.1
Nurse teaching girl basketry, 193?.
Box 42 Photo 34
Nurse and asian immigrant family, 193?.
Box 42 Photo 35
Nurse bandaging boy's leg, 193?.
Box 42 Photo 36
Nurse with mother and premature baby, 1915.
Flatfile 5 Folder 2 Photo 37
Nurse with two women and newborn baby, 191?.
Box 42 Photo 38
Nurse with marasmic baby and family, 1910.
Box 42 Photo 39
Nurse holding infant, 1919.
Box 42 Photo 40
Nurse attending two sick young men, 1916.
Box 42 Photo 41
Nurse holding twin infants, 1919.
Box 42 Photo 42
Two women in a room filled with toys, 1928.
Box 42 Photo 43
Asian family portrait, 192?.
Box 42 Photo 44
Woman and five children, 192?.
Box 42 Photo 45
Girl with beadloom, 192?.
Box 42 Photo 46
Woman using sewing machine, 1908.
Box 42 Photo 47
Fifty Years of Service, 1936.
Box 42 Photo 48
Nurse shaking boy's hand, 1961.
Box 42 Photo 49
Nurse with little girl and boy, 1958.
Box 42 Photo 50
Nurse Pera and girl with doll, 1964.
Box 42 Photo 51
Nurse Pera shaking old man's hand, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 52
Nurse Pera and the Pannells, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 53
Nurse Pera with Gary, Joel and Phyllis Pannell, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 54
Nurse Pera holding child's hand, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 55
Nurse Pera talking with neighborhood children, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 56
Nurse Pera watching children play, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 57
Children following Nurse Pera, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 58
Five nurses leaving the Society offices, 1958.
Box 43 Photo 59
Five nurses on the doorstep of a building, 1958.
Box 43 Photo 60
Five nurses on the doorstep of a building, 1958.
Box 43 Photo 60.1
75th anniversary display, 1961.
Box 43 Photo 61
75th anniversary display, 1961.
Box 43 Photo 61.1
75th anniversary exhibit, 1961.
Box 43 Photo 62
Visiting Nurse Society display, 1966.
Box 43 Photo 63
Visiting Nurse Society display, 1966.
Box 43 Photo 64
Hospitals Without Walls display, 1965.
Box 43 Photo 65
Mobile unit presentation, 1953.
Box 43 Photo 66
Nurse Zachwieja starting rounds, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 67
Nurse Zachwieja starting rounds, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 67.1
Nurse Eakle, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 68
Nurse Eakle, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 68.1
Nurse oliver in white uniform, 1963.
Box 43 Photo 69
Nurse oliver in dark uniform, 1963.
Box 43 Photo 70
Nurse Horrick, 1963.
Box 43 Photo 71
Nurse in dark uniform, 1963.
Box 43 Photo 72
Nurse Pera on the stairs, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 73
Volunteer in Child Health Conference play area, 1960.
Box 43 Photo 74
Children at Child Health Conference, 1960.
Box 43 Photo 75
Adult and Children at Child Health Conference, 1960.
Box 43 Photo 76
Two women and two children at filing cabinet, 195?.
Box 43 Photo 77
Nurse dispensing medicine, 1957.
Box 43 Photo 78
Nurse and elderly woman in medical office, 1976.
Box 43 Photo 79
Elderly woman playing with four children, 1976.
Box 43 Photo 80
Photo series beginning with nurse and couple, 1961.
Box 43 Photo 81
Photo series beginning with nurse, doctor, and child, 1961.
Box 43 Photo 82
Nurse and couple in waiting room, 1961.
Box 43 Photo 83
Nurse and couple in waiting room, 197?.
Box 43 Photo 83.1
Elderly woman at filing cabinet, 1976.
Box 43 Photo 84
People at meeting, 196?.
Box 43 Photo 85
Nurse holding syringe, 1957.
Box 43 Photo 86
Nurse holding stethoscope, 1957.
Box 43 Photo 87
Two nurses with supervisor, 1950.
Box 43 Photo 88
Nurse Pera on SEPTA, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 89
Nurse Pera and her bag, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 90
Nurse Pera and district supervisor, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 91
Nurse Pera at a Meeting, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 92
Nurse Pera at desk, 1964.
Box 43 Photo 93
Nurse Johnston at a desk, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 94
Nurse Johnston at a desk, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 94.1
Nurse giving medicine to old woman, 194?.
Box 43 Photo 95
Nurse giving sponge bath, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 96
Nurse giving sponge bath, 1949.
Box 43 Photo 96.1
Two nurses give man physical therapy, 1946.
Box 43 Photo 97
Nurse helping woman with knitting, 1947.
Box 43 Photo 98
Nurse and woman going over vitamin chart, 1947.
Box 43 Photo 99
Nurse prepares to give old man a sponge bath, 194?.
Box 43 Photo 100
Nurse attending to an old man in wheelchair, 1947.
Box 43 Photo 101
Nurse King teaches a woman to knit, 1947.
Box 43 Photo 102
Nurse giving man a shot, 196?.
Box 43 Photo 103
Nurse showing medication and a woman, 1957.
Box 43 Photo 104
Nurse helping woman with telephone, 1947.
Box 43 Photo 105
Nurse helping woman to embroider, 1947.
Box 43 Photo 106
Nurse visiting female patient, 1958.
Box 43 Photo 107
Nurse watching woman raise herself with trapeze, 1958.
Box 43 Photo 108
Nurse taking woman's pulse, 1958.
Box 43 Photo 109
Nurse taking woman's pulse and temperature, 1958.
Box 43 Photo 110
Home health aide giving elderly woman a meal, 1965.
Box 43 Photo 111
Home health aide giving elderly woman a meal, 1965.
Box 43 Photo 111.1
Home health aide combing an old woman's hair, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 112
Home health aide combing an old woman's hair, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 112.1
Home health aide combing an old woman's hair, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 112.2
Home health aide holding the arm of old woman, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 113
Home health aide holding the arm of old woman, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 113.1
Home health aide giving vitamins to old woman, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 114
Home health aide applying bandage to old woman's leg, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 115
Home health aide applying bandage to old woman's leg, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 115.1
Home health aide applying bandage to old woman's leg, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 115.2
Home health aide applying bandage to old woman's leg with husband present, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 116
Home health aide applying bandage to old woman's leg with husband present, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 116.1
Home health aide giving drinks to old couple, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 117
Home health aide giving drinks to old couple, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 117.1
Home health aide giving drinks to old couple, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 117.2
Home health aide and woman with walker, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 118
Home health aide and woman with walker, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 118.1
Home health aide and woman with walker, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 118.2
Home health aide giving pills to woman amputee, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 119
Home health aide giving pills to woman amputee, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 119.1
Home health aide giving pills to woman amputee, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 119.2
Home health aide soaking woman's amputated foot, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 120
Home health aide soaking woman's amputated foot, 1965.
Box 44 Photo 120.1
Nurse Pera helping woman comb hair, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 121
Nurse Pera helping woman comb hair, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 121.1
Nurse Pera helping woman comb hair, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 121.2
Nurse Pera checking man's heart rate as his wife looks on, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 122
Nurse Pera checking man's heart rate, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 123
Nurse Pera and arthritic woman, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 124
Nurse Pera giving woman nutritional guidance, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 125
Nurse Pera preparing a man's bandage, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 126
Nurse Pera preparing a man's bandage, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 126.1
Nurse Pera preparing man's dressing, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 127
Nurse Pera talking with old man, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 128
Nurse Pera and ms victim, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 129
Nurse fitting leg brace on child, 1958.
Box 44 Photo 130
Nurse working with child's feet, 1958.
Box 44 Photo 131
Nurse helping child put on leg braces and shoes, 1958.
Box 44 Photo 132
Nurse greeting child, 1958.
Box 44 Photo 133
Doctor and nurse giving polio vaccine to crying girl, 1955.
Box 44 Photo 134
Doctor and nurse looking in child's ear, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 135
Doctor, nurse, mother and infant, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 136
Doctor, nurse, woman and little girl, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 137
Doctor, nurse, woman and little boy, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 138
Nurse, mother and little boy and infant, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 139
Nurse bathing baby as mother watches, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 139a
Nurse and woman with infant, 197?.
Box 44 Photo 140
Nurse weighing baby on scale, 1957.
Box 44 Photo 141
Nurse looking into asian child's throat, 194?.
Box 44 Photo 142
Nurse with Asian woman and her two sons, 194?.
Box 44 Photo 143
Nurse massaging boy's leg, 1946.
Box 44 Photo 144
Nurse putting brace on boy's leg, 1946.
Box 44 Photo 145
Nurse and mother bathe infant, 1957.
Box 44 Photo 146
Nurse looking in child's mouth (front view), 1957.
Box 44 Photo 147
Nurse looking in child's mouth (side view), 1957.
Box 44 Photo 148
Nurse examines baby's scalp, 1957.
Box 44 Photo 149
Nurse showing carrot to child and mother, 1966.
Box 44 Photo 150
Nurse talking to young boy, 195?.
Box 44 Photo 151
Nurse rubbing cotton on baby's face, 1958.
Box 44 Photo 152
Nurse showing pamphlet to infant's mother, 1958.
Box 44 Photo 153
Nurse showing ammonia to mother and child, 1957.
Box 44 Photo 154
Nurse playing with child and puzzle, 1957.
Box 44 Photo 155
Nurse measuring Virginia, 194?.
Box 44 Photo 156
Nurse weighing infant, 194?.
Box 44 Photo 157
Nurse weighing infant on fairbanks scale, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 158
Nurse cleaning boy's teeth, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 159
Nurse weighing little girl, 1949.
Box 44 Photo 160
Nurse Pera helps a mother put leg braces on a boy, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 161
Nurse Pera and child smiling at each other, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 162
Nurse Pera and child looking off camera, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 163
Nurse Pera smiling at boy on crutches, 1964.
Box 44 Photo 164
Nurse Pera holding baby and smiling, 1964.
Box 45 Photo 165
Nurse Pera holding baby, 1964.
Box 45 Photo 166
Nurse Pera bathing baby while mother watches, 1964.
Box 45 Photo 167
Woman sewing, 1946.
Box 45 Photo 168
Woman making dolls, 1946.
Box 45 Photo 169
Man using table saw, 1946.
Box 45 Photo 170
One-legged woman knitting, 1947.
Box 45 Photo 171
Woman weaving, 1947.
Box 45 Photo 172
Mary Randal, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 173
Three women and a cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 174
Cake and flowers, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 175
Cake and flowers, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 175.1
Anniversary cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 176
Anniversary cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 176.1
Woman, flowers and cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 177
Woman, flowers and cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 177.1
Woman and cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 178
Seven women and cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 179
Three women and cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 180
Three women cutting a cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 181
Three women cutting a cake, 1949.
Box 45 Photo 181.1
Woman cutting VNS 60th anniversary cake, 1946.
Box 45 Photo 182
Woman cutting VNS 60th anniversary cake, 1946.
Box 45 Photo 183
Nurse in uniform, 194?.
Box 45 Photo 184
Nurse in coat carrying black bag, 194?.
Box 45 Photo 185
Nurse wearing uniform, 194?.
Box 45 Photo 186
Nurse wearing uniform and coat, 194?.
Box 45 Photo 187
Nurse against white background, 1947.
Box 45 Photo 188
1933 VNS display, 1933.
Box 45 Photo 189
1940 VNS display, 1940.
Box 45 Photo 190
70th anniversary luncheon, 1956.
Box 45 Photo 191
Awards ceremony, 1948.
Box 45 Photo 192
Awards ceremony, 1948.
Box 45 Photo 192.1
Four nurses receiving awards, 1954.
Box 45 Photo 193
Woman signing CNS contract, 1959.
Box 45 Photo 194
Woman preparing to sign CNS contract, 1959.
Box 45 Photo 195
United Way display, 194?.
Box 45 Photo 196
Contents of a nurse's black bag, 1964.
Box 45 Photo 197
When to Expect Baby display, 196?.
Box 45 Photo 198
Foot care display, 196?.
Box 45 Photo 199
Nurse Pera and black bags, 1964.
Box 45 Photo 200
Nurse filling syringe, 195?.
Box 45 Photo 201
Old and new uniforms, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 202
Four women at ceremony, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 203
Four women at ceremony, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 203.1
Four women at ceremony, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 203.2
Four women at ceremony, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 203.3
Four women holding a book, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 204
Four women holding a book, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 204.1
Three women holding a book, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 205
Man speaking at 75th anniversary luncheon, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 206
Overhead view of 75th anniversary party, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 207
Two Women Holding a Book, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 208
Three women holding award certificate, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 209
Three women holding award certificate, looking off to the side, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 210
Three women holding award certificate, looking off to the side, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 210.1
Three women holding award certificate, looking off to the side, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 210.2
Woman looking at photograph of old and new uniforms, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 211
Three women, 1965.
Box 45 Photo 212
Three nurses and two elderly women, 1965.
Box 45 Photo 213
Three women at dinner, 1948.
Box 45 Photo 214
Three women with a book, 1961.
Box 45 Photo 215
Three smiling nurses and two elderly women, 1965.
Box 45 Photo 216
Man presenting certificates to two women, 1964.
Box 45 Photo 217
Man giving gift to woman, 1979.
Box 45 Photo 218
Annual service recognition tea group shot, 1979.
Box 45 Photo 219
Woman at podium at VNS luncheon, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 220
Woman with hand-puppet, 1979.
Box 45 Photo 221
Man and elderly woman, 1979.
Box 45 Photo 222
Videotaping man at podium, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 223
People looking at VNS display, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 224
[no photograph].
Box 45 Photo 225
Three women at VNS luncheon, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 226
Man at podium, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 227
Four people at luncheon table, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 228
Four people at luncheon, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 229
Woman at podium, 1979.
Box 45 Photo 230
Mayor Goode presenting award to man, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 231
Mayor Goode presenting award to man with group, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 232
Mayor Goode presenting award to man with group, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 232.1
VNS luncheon, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 233
Three women at VNS luncheon, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 234
Three women in different period uniforms, 1986.
Box 45 Photo 235
VNS plaque, 198?.
Box 45 Photo 236
Portrait of Ruth Weaver Hubbard, 194?.
Box 45 Photo 237
Portrait of Ruth Weaver Hubbard, 194?.
Box 45 Photo 237.1
Woman giving key to nurse aside automobile, circa 1940.
Box 45 Photo 238
Group picture.
Box 45 Photo 239
Jackson, J. Norman, Mrs.
Box 45 Photo 240
Jenks, William Furness, Mrs.
Box 45 Photo 241
Lea, Henry Charles, Mrs.
Box 45 Photo 242
Lippincott, James Dundas, Mrs.
Box 45 Photo 243
Towne, John Henry, Mrs.
Box 45 Photo 244
Slides.
Box 46

Scope and Contents

This series includes memorial plaques, uniforms, caps, dolls, and a wooden toy "visiting nurse society" automobile.

Plaques.
Box 47
Uniforms.
Box 48
Uniforms.
Box 49
Medals, Block Stamps, & Gavel.
Box 50
Dolls, Toy Automobile.
Box 51

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