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Edith Nunan was a librarian at Philadelphia General Hospital. This collection contains publications, correspondence, and other materials related to Philadelphia General Hospital's Training School for Nurses and its nurse graduates. This collection also includes the records of a Nurse Biography Project, which documented significant nurses, as well as Nunan's collection of non-PGH materials related to nursing history.
University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Margo Szabunia. Preliminary finding aid annotated and updated by Gail E. Farr. Updated by Bethany Myers.
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This collection is unrestricted.
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Collection Inventory
Scope and Contents note
This series contains materials related to Philadelphia General Hospital and its Training School for Nurses.
Constitution, circa 1920s.
Box 14Folder 172
Handbooks, 1930-1970.
Box 14Folder 173
Handbook, 1972-1973.
Box 14Folder 174
Student manual, 1971-1972.
Box 14Folder 175
Student government and student activities at Blockley.
Box 14Folder 176
May Day.
Box 14Folder 177
Class Night.
Box 14Folder 178
Christmas.
Box 14Folder 179
Senior Class Banquets.
Box 15Folder 180
Senior Formal Dance.
Box 15Folder 181
Miscellaneous.
Box 15Folder 182
Blockley Medical Society, musical comedies.
Box 15Folder 183
Play, "The Old Order Changeth", 1885-1935.
Box 15Folder 184
Graduation exercise programs.
Box 15Folder 185
Alumni reunion banquet program.
Box 15Folder 186
School song and reunion news, class of 1928 and class of 1959.
Box 15Folder 187
Correspondence, office of nursing.
Box 16Folder 188
Historical survey.
Box 16Folder 189
Chronology of PGH by Ernestine 'Kittl.
Box 16Folder 190
Rufus S. Reeves, Director of the Department of Health, 1945.
Box 16Folder 191
Blood Bank, 1944.
Box 16Folder 192
Benjamin Franklin and the Rise of Free Treatment of the Poor by the Medical Profession of Philadelphia, RJ Hunter.
Box 16Folder 193
The Origin of the Philadelphia General Hospital--Blockley Division, RJ Hunter.
Box 16Folder 194
Journal of the Philadelphia General Hospital, 1952-1954.
Box 16Folder 195
Proceedings of the bi-centenary celebration of the building of the Philadelphia Almshouse.
Box 16Folder 196
1963.
Box 1Folder 1
1964.
Box 1Folder 2
1965.
Box 1Folder 3
1966.
Box 1Folder 4
1967.
Box 1Folder 5
1968.
Box 1Folder 6
1969.
Box 1Folder 7
1970.
Box 2Folder 8
1971.
Box 2Folder 9
1972.
Box 2Folder 10
1973.
Box 2Folder 11
1974.
Box 2Folder 12
1977.
Box 2Folder 13
General quotes, 1951-1954.
Box 3Folder 14
Focus, 1972-1975.
Box 3Folder 15
Research reports, 1963-1969.
Box 3Folder 16
Pamphlets re: PGH.
Box 3Folder 17
Subject index for PGH papers.
Box 3Folder 18
Thermometer, 1958-1959.
Box 3Folder 19
Religious publications.
Box 3Folder 20
Miscellaneous pamphlets.
Box 3Folder 21
PGH History.
Box 4Folder 22
Hospital chaplains.
Box 4Folder 23
Influenza epidemic, 1918.
Box 4Folder 24
Christmas at Blockley, 1923.
Box 4Folder 25
Historical background: chronology, 1732-1976 compiled by E. 'Kittl et al.
Box 4Folder 26
PGH historical background.
Box 4Folder 27
The Literary History, by Edith Nunan.
Box 4Folder 28
Blockley history.
Box 4Folder 29
Historical documents.
Box 4Folder 30
Legal opinion re: PGH, 1892.
Box 4Folder 31
Philadelphia Board of Guardians of the Poor, annual statement, 1885.
Box 4Folder 32
The Old Blockley Hospital: Its Characters & Characteristics, by J. Chalmers Da Costa, MD, 1907.
Box 4Folder 33
The Passing of Old Blockley, Ruth E. Rives, 1927.
Box 4Folder 34
PGH annual reports, 1941-1946, 1963, 1973-1974.
Box 4Folder 35
Bi-centenary of PGH, 1932.
Box 4Folder 36
Biographies.
Box 5Folder 37
Graduate recruitment and personnel files.
Box 5Folder 38
Nursing department, personnel policies.
Box 5Folder 39
Alice Fisher #1.
Box 5Folder 40
Alice Fisher #2.
Box 5Folder 41
Alice Fisher #3.
Box 5Folder 42
Ella W. Allison.
Box 5Folder 43
Mary Gockley.
Box 5Folder 44
Marian E. Miller, commencement address, 1974.
Box 5Folder 45
PGH Directors of Nursing.
Box 5Folder 46
Edith Nunan, philosophy.
Box 5Folder 47
Josephine Spengler, speech.
Box 5Folder 48
Ernestine 'Kittl.
Box 5Folder 49
Stella Goostray, SON.
Box 5Folder 50
Florence Elliott, SON.
Box 5Folder 51
Regina Matela, SON.
Box 5Folder 52
History and miscellaneous.
Box 6Folder 53
Information re collection and library.
Box 6Folder 54
Library guide.
Box 6Folder 55
Admission material.
Box 6Folder 56
Historical background.
Box 6Folder 57
Trained Nurse at the Philadelphia Hospital, The Times, September 11, 1887.
Box 6Folder 58
McFarland, Joseph, MD "The History of Nursing at the Blockley Hospital," pamphlet, 1932.
Box 6Folder 59
Curriculum chronology, 1977.
Box 6Folder 60
Grading of schools of nursing.
Box 6Folder 61
Rules Governing Pupil Nurses... pamphlet, 1917.
Box 6Folder 62
Resume of Night Duty Lectures, Little, Blanche RN, 1940.
Box 6Folder 63
Experience record, 1943.
Box 6Folder 64
Experience record, 1957.
Box 6Folder 65
Students' Guide to Efficient Study.
Box 6Folder 66
Outlines and case studies, 1955.
Box 6Folder 67
Dedications--nurses residences.
Box 6Folder 68
Faculty handbook.
Box 6Folder 69
Article and letter.
Box 7Folder 70
Articles.
Box 7Folder 71
Condolences re: death.
Box 7Folder 72
Articles.
Box 7Folder 73
Articles.
Box 7Folder 74
Tributes, etc.
Box 7Folder 75
Clippings and papers.
Box 7Folder 76
Papers from 1929 International Council of Nurses.
Box 7Folder 77
Papers re: International Council of Nurses.
Box 7Folder 78
Articles.
Box 7Folder 79
Memoriam--AJN and Annie Goodrich.
Box 7Folder 80
Articles.
Box 7Folder 81
Alice Fisher Alumnae Club.
Box 8Folder 82
Marion E. Smith, chief nurse 1888-1903.
Box 8Folder 83
Vassar Group, 1918.
Box 8Folder 84
Accomplishments, etc. of Blockley nurses.
Box 8Folder 85
Loretta M. Johnson, Director PGH School of Nursing and Nursing Service, 1930-1949.
Box 8Folder 86
Mary Alice McLaughlin, Director PGH School of Nursing and Nursing Service, 1949-1954.
Box 8Folder 87
Margaret M. Jackson, Director PGH School of Nursing and Nursing Service, 1955-1963.
Box 8Folder 88
Stephanie A. Stachniewicz, Director PGH School of Nursing and Nursing Service, 1972-1977.
Box 8Folder 89
Roberta M. West.
Box 8Folder 90
Mary H. Greenwood.
Box 8Folder 91
Cecile R. Kennedy.
Box 8Folder 92
Ruby G. Bradley.
Box 8Folder 93
Josephine Spengler.
Box 8Folder 94
Derl Gilbert.
Box 8Folder 95
Dora Mathis Award.
Box 8Folder 96
Nursing biography and history.
Box 8Folder 97
October 1935-December 1936.
Box 9Folder 98
January-April, 1937.
Box 9Folder 99
September-December, 1939.
Box 9Folder 100
January 1940-December 1941.
Box 9Folder 101
February 1942-1943.
Box 9Folder 102
1944.
Box 9Folder 103
1945.
Box 9Folder 104
1946.
Box 9Folder 105
1947.
Box 9Folder 106
1948.
Box 9Folder 107
1949.
Box 9Folder 108
1950.
Box 9Folder 109
1951-1952.
Box 9Folder 110
1953-1955.
Box 9Folder 111
1956-1959.
Box 9Folder 112
William Osler, MD.
Box 10Folder 113
Joseph C. Doane, MD, pamphlets.
Box 10Folder 114
Joseph C. Doane, MD, papers.
Box 10Folder 115
Henry J. Myers, pharmacist.
Box 10Folder 116
William G. Turnbull, MD.
Box 10Folder 117
John Chalmers Da Costa, MD.
Box 10Folder 118
William S. Middleton, MD.
Box 10Folder 119
John Welsh Croksey, MD.
Box 10Folder 120
Memorial, dedication of wards.
Box 10Folder 121
Ex-resident and resident physicians.
Box 10Folder 122
Truman Schnabel, MD.
Box 10Folder 123
Bernard P. Widmann, MD.
Box 10Folder 124
Pascal F. Lucchesi, MD.
Box 10Folder 125
General memoranda, 1952-1954.
Box 10Folder 126
Administrative changes, 1953.
Box 10Folder 127
Organization chart, 1957.
Box 10Folder 128
Intern and resident handbook.
Box 10Folder 129
Henry W. Kolbe, MD.
Box 10Folder 130
Charles M. Thompson, MD.
Box 10Folder 131
Moses Behrend, MD.
Box 10Folder 132
Medical research at PGH, 1969-1970.
Box 10Folder 133
Eldercare, 1965.
Box 10Folder 134
Tina Weintraub, 1971-1976.
Box 10Folder 135
Cynthia W. Cooke, MD.
Box 10Folder 136
Osler memorial.
Box 10Folder 137
PGH diet manual, 1947.
Box 11Folder 138
PGH medical departments, 1951-1974.
Box 11Folder 139
Department of Health, Health Education Handbook, 1950.
Box 11Folder 140
Philadelphia Health Bulletins, 1945-1950.
Box 11Folder 141
Department of Health annual report, 1942.
Box 11Folder 142
Department of Health monthly bulletins, PGH historical items, 1922-1934.
Box 11Folder 143
Bill to adopt health code, 1954.
Box 11Folder 144
PGH disaster plan, 1961.
Box 11Folder 145
American Nurses' Association, the Role of the Nurse in Disaster, 1960.
Box 11Folder 146
Philadelphia Regional Emergency Medical Disaster Operations Plan, 1968.
Box 11Folder 147
Hospital survey committee report, 1972.
Box 11Folder 148
Sparer Report, "Medical School Accountability in the Public Hospital", 1974.
Box 11Folder 149
Sparer, "The Philadelphia General Hospital", 1976.
Box 11Folder 150
PGH museum.
Box 11Folder 151
PGH Home Care Department, 1971.
Box 11Folder 152
PGH closing, 1977.
Box 11Folder 153
Index, Pennock, Meta Rutter "Makers of Nursing History," 1940 ed.
Box 19Folder 207
Notes on the project.
Box 19Folder 208
Anderson, Lydia E.
Box 19Folder 209
Bowman, Josephine B.
Box 19Folder 209
Breckinridge, Mary.
Box 19Folder 209
Burgess, Elizabeth C.
Box 19Folder 209
Butler, Ida F.
Box 19Folder 209
Carr, Ada M.
Box 19Folder 209
Deming, Dorothy.
Box 19Folder 209
Domitilla, Sister M.
Box 19Folder 209
Eldredge, Adda.
Box 19Folder 209
Fox, Elizabeth Gordon.
Box 19Folder 209
Francis, Susan C.
Box 19Folder 209
Gabriel, Sister John.
Box 19Folder 209
Gladwin, Mary Elizabeth.
Box 19Folder 209
Grant, Amelia.
Box 19Folder 209
Gray, Carolyn E.
Box 19Folder 209
Gregg, Elinor D.
Box 19Folder 209
Howell, Marion Gertrude.
Box 19Folder 209
Hickey, Mary A.
Box 19Folder 209
Hawkinson, Nellie X.
Box 19Folder 209
Hall, Carrie M.
Box 19Folder 209
Jamme, Anna C.
Box 19Folder 209
Johnson, Sally.
Box 19Folder 209
Logan, Laura R.
Box 19Folder 209
McCleery, Ada Belle.
Box 19Folder 209
McCrae, Annabella.
Box 19Folder 209
Olivia, Sister M.
Box 19Folder 209
Powell, Louise M.
Box 19Folder 209
Scott, Alma Ham.
Box 19Folder 209
Soule, Elizabeth Sterling.
Box 19Folder 209
Stewart, Isabel Maitland.
Box 19Folder 209
Stimson, Julia C.
Box 19Folder 209
Taylor, Effie Jane.
Box 19Folder 209
Thomson, Elinora.
Box 19Folder 209
Tucker, Katherine.
Box 19Folder 209
Urch, Daisy Dean.
Box 19Folder 209
Wolf, Anna D.
Box 19Folder 209
Wood, Helen.
Box 19Folder 209
Young, Helen.
Box 19Folder 209
M. Adelaide Nutting.
Box 19Folder 210
Borden, Sister Helen.
Box 19Folder 211
Brown, Lucy Lincoln.
Box 19Folder 211
Darche, Louise.
Box 19Folder 211
Delano, Jane Archer.
Box 19Folder 211
Dock, Lavina Lloyd.
Box 19Folder 211
Fisher, Alice.
Box 19Folder 211
Hampton Robb, Isabel A.
Box 19Folder 211
Kimber, Diane C.
Box 19Folder 211
McIsaac, Isabel.
Box 19Folder 211
Maxwell, Anna Caroline.
Box 19Folder 211
Palmer, Sophia F.
Box 19Folder 211
Richards, Linda.
Box 19Folder 211
Crandall, Ella Phillips.
Box 19Folder 212
Damer, Anne.
Box 19Folder 212
De Witt, Katherine.
Box 19Folder 212
Gardner, Mary Sewall.
Box 19Folder 212
Goodrich, Annie W.
Box 19Folder 212
Hay, Helen Scott.
Box 19Folder 212
Hitchens, Jane Elizabeth.
Box 19Folder 212
Nevins, Georgia K.
Box 19Folder 212
Noyes, Clara Dutton.
Box 19Folder 212
Parsons, Sara E.
Box 19Folder 212
Samuel, Mary Alexander.
Box 19Folder 212
Wheeler, Mary Curtis.
Box 19Folder 212
Photographs of Nursing Leaders. Photomechanical reproductions.
Box 19Folder 213
Friends of Nursing: Joan Broadhurst, PhD.
Box 19Folder 214
Letters and list nurses, WW I.
Box 19Folder 215
Letters, nurses WW II.
Box 19Folder 216
Cadet Nurse Corp News.
Box 19Folder 217
Promotional literature, 1950-1960s.
Box 12Folder 154
Catalog, circa 1930s.
Box 12Folder 155
Catalogs, 1960-1970s.
Box 12Folder 156
Yearbook information.
Box 12Folder 157
Class picture information.
Box 12Folder 158
Graduation exercises and gold medal winners.
Box 12Folder 159
Chronology and milestones-Blockley.
Box 12Folder 160
Furniture collection and artifacts.
Box 12Folder 161
History of graduate cap.
Box 12Folder 162
Doll collection.
Box 12Folder 163
Newspaper articles.
Box 12Folder 164
The Pulse, student nurse publication.
Box 12Folder 165
Graduation exercise programs.
Box 12Folder 166
Graduation address by Dr. J. McFarland, 1936.
Box 12Folder 167
Scrapbook, miscellaneous clippings.
Box 3Folder 21a
The Evening Bulletin, 1920, miscellaneous clippings.
Box 3Folder 21b
1915-1930.
Box 13Folder 168
1931-1947.
Box 13Folder 169
1950-1965.
Box 13Folder 170
1966-1977.
Box 13Folder 171
1953-1954.
Box 17Folder 197
1955-1956.
Box 17Folder 198
1954-1958.
Box 17Folder 199
1960-1967.
Box 17Folder 200
1968-1969.
Box 17Folder 201
1970-1977.
Box 17Folder 202
Anatomical aids pamphlets.
Box 18Folder 203
Emergency War Surgery, NATO handbook. War Injuries of the Chest.
Box 18Folder 204
First Aid instructor's manual.
Box 18Folder 205
Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing.
Box 18Folder 206
Clipping collection by E.F. Hoffman, circa 1882-1885.
From Edith Nunan to Stephanie Stachniewicz, Director of Nursing at PGH, 1974.
Box 21
From Edith Nunan to Stephanie Stachniewicz and Miss Matela, 1974.
Box 21
From Regina Matela, Associate Director of Nursing at City of Philadelphia Nursing Home, to Dr. M. Fitzpatrick, Dean of Nursing at Villanova University, 1980.
Box 21
Memorandum from PGH, undated.
Box 21
Notes from Herbert Mills' Benediction at the Finish of the Vassar Nurse Training Camp, 1918.
Box 21
How Can a More Satisfactory Relationship And Cooperation Be Established Between The Nursing Staff And Other Departments In The Hospital? by Helen T. Holliday, Superintendent of Nurses at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX, 1955?.
Box 21
Red Cross Nursing As Exemplified By The Life of Cecile Kennedy by Mary Rabenstein, 1959.
Box 21
Nursing Care by Anne Liotta, R.N., 1960.
Box 21
Treatment Of Decubiti With Sugar by Mary Rodgers, 1963.
This series contains information on nursing schools and hospitals other than Philadelphia General Hospital. This series and its subseries do not have folder numbers.
Manual of Accrediting Educational Programs In Nursing (two copies), 1949.
Box 21
Specific Nursing Schools, 1938-1977.
Box 21
Social and Recreational Activities in the School's Curriculum, 1954.
Box 21
Opportunities for Education in Nursing, 1960.
Box 21
Nursing School Caps and Pins, February 1945 - November 1978, and undated materials.
Box 21
Pictures of Public Health Nursing Around the World, 1928.
Box 21
Hourly Nursing From the VNA Point Of View, 1930.
Box 21
The Objectives in Public Health Nursing, 1931.
Box 21
Relations Between the Public Health Nurse and the Social Case Worker, 1932.
Box 21
Providing an Adequate Community Nursing Service, 1933.
Box 21
Program for Staff Education: Nutrition for Public Health Nurses, 1935.
Box 21
Functions in Public Health Nursing, 1936.
Box 21
A Survey for the Qualifications of Public Health Nurses, 1941.
Box 21
Know Your Public Health Nurse, 1947.
Box 21
Your Visiting Nurse, 1947.
Box 21
Generalized Public Health Nursing, 1951.
Box 21
Can You Have A Nurse?, 1952.
Box 21
The Enclosed..., 1952.
Box 21
On Philadelphia Community Health in the Past, 1967.
Box 21
When You Need a Nurse, undated.
Box 21
Psychiatric Nursing in a State Psychopathic Hospital, 1928.
Box 21
Mental Health Bulletin, 1953.
Box 21
General History of Hospitals (mixed sources, 1929-1974 and undated materials.
Box 21
Specific Hospitals: Bellevue, Harrisburg, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Kaonde Hospital (South Africa), Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Thomas's Hospital (London).
Box 21
Europe and the Mediterranean, 1938.
Box 21
Lands of the Bible Today, 1956.
Box 21
Lands of the Bible Today, 1967.
Box 21
Classical Lands - Greco-Roman World.
Box 21
(15) St. Thomas Hospital (London).
Box 21
(1) Library of Florence Nightingale School (Bordeaux).
Box 21
(1) "Double Frill" cap of Philadelphia General Hospital.
Box 21
(1) S. Lillian Clayton.
Box 21
(1) Probationer Class of 1918 at the Nightingale School (London).
Box 21
Graphic, January 1930.
Box 23
The American Junior Red Cross Journal, April 1949.
Box 23
Supplement to International Nursing Bulletin, 1949.