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Pennsylvania Nurses Association, District 1 records

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Call Number:
MC 99
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing
Extent:
11.7 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Pennsylvania Nurses' Association, District 1 records, Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1921-1973 (inclusive)
Creator:
Pennsylvania Nurses' Association.
Form:
Administrative records and Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
The Philadelphia District, No. 1, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Nurses Association in 1919. These records of District 1 cover the majority of the organization's history. Materials include minutes, proceedings, reports, correspondence, finance information, and photographs.

The Pennsylvania Nurses' Association was founded in 1903 by nurses "feeling the need of organization, legislation and registration in the state of Pennsylvania." The immediate objective was for a registration law to control education and entry into the nursing profession, but the specific orientation of regional groups and specialized nurses soon caused the association to branch out in a variety of directions. By 1919, the state association had become unwieldy, and districts were formed to better respond to the needs of individual nurses and regional interests within the state. On April 30, 1919, the Philadelphia District Number 1, along with several others, was admitted to membership.

The concerns of District 1, from its inception, revolved around the establishment of a central headquarters with an official registry of nurses. Lack of interest, however, prevented effective action until the Nurses' Official Directory was established in 1929 to facilitate employment. Shortly after, both interest and membership rose dramatically. The Philadelphia district developed into one of the most active sections, involved in legislative actions in all areas of health care, professional promotion, publicity and education, as well as in many community activities.

Gift of Janet Smith at the Temple University Urban Archives.

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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 Center staff, updated by Bethany Myers, updated by Madalyn Northuis
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This collection was processed with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission as part of the Nursing History Processing and Cataloging Project.
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This collection is unrestricted.

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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents note

The first series contains the minutes of the board of directors, the typewritten reports of the proceedings of the annual conventions and various reports of officers. Comprising the dominant series in the collection, the minutes and proceedings chronicle the influence and activities of the Philadelphia district on the nursing profession almost from the organization's inception.

1923-1930.
Box 1 Folder 1-8
1931-1936.
Box 2 Folder 9-15
1937-1944.
Box 3 Folder 16-24
1945-1952.
Box 4 Folder 25-32
1953-1958.
Box 5 Folder 33-39
1959-1963.
Box 6 Folder 40-47
1964.
Box 7 Folder 48
1964-1967.
Box 7 Folder 49
1967-1968.
Box 7 Folder 50
1923-1933.
Box 7 Folder 51-61
1934-1946.
Box 8 Folder 62-74
1947-May 1964.
Box 9 Folder 75-83
September 1964-1967.
Box 10 Folder 84
1967-1968.
Box 10 Folder 85
1970.
Box 10 Folder 86
1932-1949.
Box 10 Folder 87-89
1962-1968.
Box 10 Folder 90
Budget, 1948-1952.
Box 10 Folder 91
Reports of the Treasurer and budgets, 1967-1968.
Box 10 Folder 92
Proceedings and reports, miscellaneous, 1967-1968.
Box 10 Folder 93
Proceedings and reports, 1946, 1947.
Box 28 Folder 47

Scope and Contents note

The papers of the various committees and sections within District 1 provide information regarding the interests of specialized nursing groups in addition to insight into the administrative functioning of the organization. The series includes correspondence, minutes and some printed material, and the files are arranged alphabetically by section or committee.

1960-1964.
Box 10 Folder 1
1964-1972.
Box 11 Folder 2-3
CERS Section, 1963.
Box 11 Folder 4
Chronically Ill Committee, 1947-1948.
Box 11 Folder 5
Committee Lists, 1964.
Box 11 Folder 6
Complaint Committee, minutes, 1948.
Box 11 Folder 7
Bylaws and amendments, 1945-1950.
Box 11 Folder 8
Correspondence, 1945-1948.
Box 11 Folder 9
1947-1949.
Box 11 Folder 10
1962-1963.
Box 11 Folder 11
District Fund-raising Committee, 1962-1963.
Box 11 Folder 12
EACT Section, 1962-1971.
Box 11 Folder 13-15
Education Section, 1964-1968.
Box 11 Folder 16-17
Eligibility Committee, Reports to PNA, District 1, 1919-1940.
Box 11 Folder 18
Emergency Grants Committee, 1963-1967.
Box 11 Folder 19-20
General Duty Section, 1955-1965.
Box 11 Folder 21-22
Headquarters Committee, 1957-1964.
Box 11 Folder 23
1947-1948.
Box 12 Folder 24-25
1964-1966.
Box 12 Folder 26
Information.
Box 12 Folder 27
1947-1948.
Box 12 Folder 28
1965-1972.
Box 12 Folder 29-31
Men's Nurses Section, 1940-1948.
Box 12 Folder 32
N.S.A. Section, 1962-1970.
Box 12 Folder 33-34
1943-1948.
Box 12 Folder 35
1962-1967.
Box 12 Folder 36-37
Nurses Education Committee, 1963.
Box 13 Folder 38
Nursing in National Defense, 1957-1963.
Box 13 Folder 39-41
Pediatric Nurses' Section, 1971.
Box 13 Folder 42
Personnel Committee, 1955-1966.
Box 13 Folder 43
President's Conference Group, 1963-1964.
Box 13 Folder 44-45
Private Duty Nurses' Section, 1967-1973.
Box 13 Folder 46
Program Committee, 1965-1972.
Box 13 Folder 47-49
Public Health Section, 1959-1971.
Box 13 Folder 50-54
Public Relations Committee, 1955-1972.
Box 14 Folder 55-58
Recruitment Committee, 1969-1972.
Box 14 Folder 59
Red Cross Committee, 1947-1948.
Box 14 Folder 60
School Section, 1962-1970.
Box 14 Folder 61-62
Sections Conference Committee, 1963-1965.
Box 14 Folder 63
Special Interest Section, 1971.
Box 14 Folder 64
Structure Committee, 1970.
Box 14 Folder 65
Study Committee on ANA Functions, 1963.
Box 14 Folder 66

Scope and Contents note

This is an alphabetically arranged file representing District 1's civic and professional interest activities, relations with other organizations, legislative goals, and its involvement in health care issues and education. Also included are documents related to the district’s social meetings.

American Journal of Nursing, 1970-1972.
Box 14 Folder 1
American Medical Association, 1963.
Box 14 Folder 2
Bylaws and Rules, 1958-1960.
Box 14 Folder 3
Legislation News, 1964.
Box 14 Folder 4
Be-Involved Campaign, 1969-1970.
Box 14 Folder 5
Community News Releases, 1964-1965.
Box 14 Folder 6
Counseling and Placement Services, 1947-1948.
Box 14 Folder 7
Deceased members, 1964.
Box 14 Folder 8
Delaware Valley Hospital Council, 1964.
Box 14 Folder 9
District Secretaries Conference, 1947-1948.
Box 14 Folder 10
Dues dispute at Kennedy Hospital, 1969-1970.
Box 14 Folder 11
Election candidates, 1963-1964, 1968, 1971.
Box 15 Folder 12-16
Election teller returns, 1963-1964, 1966-1967.
Box 15 Folder 17-20
Employment standards, 1964.
Box 15 Folder 21
Fiftieth anniversary, 1969.
Box 15 Folder 22
Foreign nurses, 1963, 1971-1972.
Box 15 Folder 23-24
Friendship fete, 1964-1965.
Box 15 Folder 25
Health and Welfare Council, 1963-1968.
Box 15 Folder 26-27
Health insurance, 1942-1948.
Box 15 Folder 28
Heart Association of Southeast Pennsylvania, 1963.
Box 15 Folder 29
Honorary recognition, 1962-1968.
Box 15 Folder 30
Immigrant nurses, 1968.
Box 15 Folder 31
Income tax deductions, 1968.
Box 15 Folder 32
Income tax exemption, 1938-1952.
Box 15 Folder 33
Industrial nurses, 1957.
Box 15 Folder 34
1960-1963.
Box 16 Folder 35
1964-1967.
Box 16 Folder 36
Legal advisor, 1963-1971.
Box 16 Folder 37
Legal documents, Loomis vs. District 1, 1950-1958.
Box 16 Folder 38-39
Meeting evaluation sheets, 1962-1963.
Box 16 Folder 40
National League for Nursing, 1964.
Box 16 Folder 41
News items, 1963-1964.
Box 16 Folder 42
Nurses' Week, 1966.
Box 16 Folder 43
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1948.
Box 16 Folder 44
Reports of field visits to District 1 and Nurses' Official Directors, 1952-1954.
Box 16 Folder 45
Correspondence, 1962-1970.
Box 16 Folder 46
Pennsylvania State Board of Nurse Examiners, 1961.
Box 16 Folder 47
Pennsylvania State Employment Service, 1962-1963.
Box 16 Folder 48
Pennsylvania Tuberculosis and Health Society, 1964-1965.
Box 16 Folder 49
Philadelphia County Medical Society, 1964-1965.
Box 16 Folder 50
Polio Immunization program, 1963.
Box 16 Folder 51
Practical nurses, 1962-1963.
Box 16 Folder 52
Professional code, 1960-1963.
Box 17 Folder 53
Social Services Building, 1938-1965.
Box 17 Folder 54
Southeastern Pennsylvania League for Nursing, 1963-1965.
Box 17 Folder 55
Squibb & Sons, newsletter "Nurse Notes", 1959-1964.
Box 17 Folder 56
State Board of Nursing Education, 1958-1963.
Box 17 Folder 57
Student nurses, 1963-1964, 1970-1971.
Box 17 Folder 58-60
United Cerebral Palsy Association, 1963.
Box 17 Folder 61
Wage tax, 1939-1940.
Box 17 Folder 62
Workmen's compensation, 1935-1937.
Box 17 Folder 63
World Health Organization, 1958.
Box 17 Folder 64

Scope and Contents note

This series consists of incoming and outgoing letters of officers and the office secretary, primarily covering the 1960s. Among the major topics are District 1's administration and relations with other organizations and groups.

American Nurses' Association, 1969-1972.
Box 17 Folder 1
A-J.
Box 17 Folder 2-4
K-Z.
Box 18 Folder 5-7
Board of Directors, 1964.
Box 18 Folder 8
Executive secretary, 1963-1964.
Box 18 Folder 9-10
General, 1969-1972.
Box 18 Folder 11
Membership, 1964.
Box 18 Folder 12
Office secretary, 1965-1967.
Box 18 Folder 13
President, 1965-1966.
Box 18 Folder 14

Scope and Contents note

This series includes information detailing the functions and development of the Nurses' Official Directory, which served to put registered nurses in contact with employers. Minutes, correspondence, registrants' meeting proceedings and a history of the N.O.D. chronicle the important role that this section played in the growth of District 1.

Chronicle, 1935-1940.
Box 19 Folder 1
1939-1955.
Box 19 Folder 2-18
1956-1965.
Box 20 Folder 19-28
Annual report, 1945-1948.
Box 20 Folder 29
Reports to Board of Directors, 1952-1961.
Box 20 Folder 30-37
List of members, 1945-1962.
Box 20 Folder 38
1939-1952.
Box 20 Folder 39-52
1953-1965.
Box 21 Folder 53-65
Applications presented, 1962-1965.
Box 21 Folder 66
Special Committee, memo re applicants of military age, 1945.
Box 21 Folder 67
Committee to Complete the Business, 1951.
Box 21 Folder 68
Registry Committee, Minutes, 1928-1929.
Box 21 Folder 69
1942-1946.
Box 21 Folder 70
1961-1962.
Box 21 Folder 71
Charter of the Organization of Registrants, 1954.
Box 21 Folder 72
1936-1956.
Box 21 Folder 73-79
1957-1962.
Box 22 Folder 80-85
Description of the organization, undated.
Box 22 Folder 86
Discontinuance, 1958.
Box 22 Folder 87
Finance, 1949-1951.
Box 22 Folder 88
N.O.D. cashbooks, 1958-1965.
Box 22 Folder 89
Organization and history, [1940-1941?].
Box 22 Folder 90
1949.
Box 22 Folder 91
1970-1972.
Box 22 Folder 92
Registrants, 1940-1964.
Box 23 Folder 93-95
1940-1948.
Box 23 Folder 96
1949-1950.
Box 23 Folder 97
1951.
Box 23 Folder 98
1952-1954.
Box 23 Folder 99
1955-1957.
Box 23 Folder 100
1958-1961.
Box 23 Folder 101
Registrants' returns, 1952.
Box 23 Folder 102-103
Reports of Registrar, 1939-1965.
Box 24 Folder 104-127
Reports of Treasurer, 1943-1965.
Box 24 Folder 128-146
Review Committee, 1952.
Box 25 Folder 147
Rules and personnel policies, 1954.
Box 25 Folder 148
Survey, 1937.
Box 25 Folder 149
Termination correspondence, 1965.
Box 25 Folder 150

Scope and Contents note

Contained here are the newsletters, legislative bulletins, clippings, administrative manuals, and other printed material of the PNA. In addition, there are dues ledgers and some financial correspondence.

Brochure of the Bucks-Philadelphia County District, 1960.
Box 25 Folder 1
Committee manual, 1948.
Box 25 Folder 2
District presidents and secretaries manual, 1955-1964.
Box 25 Folder 3-4
Legislation News, 1963.
Box 25 Folder 5
Legislative Bulletin, 1963-1971.
Box 25 Folder 6-11
Legislative Manual, 1952-1953.
Box 26 Folder 12
Local Committee programs manual, 1948.
Box 26 Folder 13
Newsletter, 1951-1964.
Box 26 Folder 14-16
Official bulletin, 1939-1950.
Box 26 Folder 17-22
Organization manual, 1951.
Box 26 Folder 23
Style manual, 1961.
Box 27 Folder 24
Calendars, 1921-1927.
Box 27 Folder 25-26
Dues ledger, 1965-1967.
Box 27 Folder 27
Finance Committee, 1943-1972.
Box 27 Folder 28-33
Financial statements, 1964-1971.
Box 27 Folder 34-35
Tax exempt status, 1937-1938.
Box 28 Folder 36
Tax exemption, 1969-1972.
Box 28 Folder 37
Tax statements, 1944-1971.
Box 28 Folder 38-39
Treasurers' membership reports, 1969-1972.
Box 28 Folder 40-41
Clippings, 1961-1966.
Box 28 Folder 42-44
By-Laws, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, 1949; By-Laws, Pennsylvania Nurses Association, 1964; and Manual For Local Units, 1969.
Box 28 Folder 45
PSNA-Fifty Years of Progress, 1903-1953.
Box 28 Folder 46

Scope and Contents note

This series contains photos of individual PNA members and photos of the Mass Polio Immunization Campaign in 1963. Captions and newsletter clippings are attached.

Mrs. Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Receiving the Albert Einstein Medical Center's Centennial Medal.
Box 28 Photo 1
Arlene Boyer, Faculty Member, 1963.
Box 28 Photo 2
Eileen Cancelli, President of the Student Nurses Association of Philadelphia, 1963.
Box 28 Photo 3
Naomi Sayers, Public Health Nurse, 1963.
Box 28 Photo 4
Arlene Boyer, Eileen Cancelli, and Naomi Sayers, 1963.
Box 28 Photo 5
Historic Student Nursing Uniforms Being Modeled, Albert Einstein Medical Center School of Nursing, 1965.
Box 28 Photo 6
Miss Ella W. Allison, Director of Nursing of Albert Einstein Medical Center (2 photos), 1968.
Box 28 Photo 7
P.F. Lucchesi, M.D., Executive Vice-President and Medical Director of Albert Einstein Medical Center, 1968.
Box 28 Photo 8
Mrs. Edythe Sobel receiving the Nurses Alumnae "Woman of the Year", 1968.
Box 28 Photo 9
Samuel H. Daroff, Renaming of the Southern Division of the Albert Einstein Medical Center, 1968.
Box 28 Photo 10
Helen L. Zaborowski, RN, 1968.
Box 28 Photo 11
Margaret Dolan, 1969.
Box 28 Photo 12
P.F. Lucchesi, M.D., Albert Einstein Medical Center Executive Vice President and Medical Director, 1969.
Box 28 Photo 13
Julius Klein, Albert Einstein Medical Center President, 1969.
Box 28 Photo 14
Unidentified Group on TWA Flight #369.
Box 28 Photo 15
Unidentified Group at Special Function.
Box 28 Photo 16
Unidentified Group at Special Function.
Box 28 Photo 17

Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association Minutes of District No. 1 Meeting, 1901-1940.
Box 29
Gynecean Hospital Nurses’ Association, 1925-1935.
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Association ballots, 1927, 1930.
Box 29
Alumnae Association private duty Nursing, 1936-1939.
Box 29
Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association legislative-registration/licensing.
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Association (President), 1925, 1928.
Box 29
Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association membership campaign, 1936, 1940.
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Association by-laws, 1920-1939.
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Chorus, 1939.
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Association Delegates, 1940.
Box 29
Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association (Nurses’ Official Directory), 1928, 1930, 1938.
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Association Financial Reports, 1925, 1930, 1939.
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Association Grading, 1925-1930.
Box 29
Statistics, 1929-1936.
Box 29
Florence Nightingale Memorial, 1937 .
Box 29
Graduate Nurses’ Association Nurses’ Relief Fund, 1914-1932.
Box 29
Legislative Fund, 1935.
Box 29
Nursing Education Speeches.
Box 29
National Biennial Nursing Convention Nursing Education, 1936.
Box 29
Pennsylvania League of Nursing Education By-Laws and Constitution.
Box 29
State Board Examiners for Registration of Nurses, 1920-1939.
Box 29
The [Nurses’] Quarterly Subscription Information, Journal Information.
Box 29
Correspondence, Isabella S. Harrison to Joan Lynaugh.
Box 29
Quarterly Record of Mass. General Hospital Nurses Alum Assoc, September 1945.
Box 29
Deur-ez-zpr Medical Center 5th Annual Report, 1933-1934.
Box 29
Letter from Gladys Webber (NY) to Eliz. Berrang (HUP), 1946.
Box 29
Associated Alumnae of Trained Nurses.
Box 29
Hospital Care of Graduate Nurses, Correspondence, 1909, 1929, 1930.
Box 29
Pay Raises for Nursing, Correspondence.
Box 29
Red Cross Applications for Membership, 1925-1940.
Box 29
Red Cross, Correspondence, 1918-1935.
Box 29
Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association Members (Resident), 1930.
Box 29
1931-1932.
Box 29
1933-1934.
File 29
1935-1936.
Box 29
1937.
Box 29
Nurses Alumnae, Association of Pennsylvania Resident Members, 1939-1940.
Box 29
1931-1932.
Box 29
1933-1934.
Box 29
1935-1936.
File 29
1937-1938.
Box 29
1939-1940.
Box 29
Undadted.
Box 29
1931-1935.
Box 29
1936-1940.
Box 29
1920-1925.
Box 29
1926-1930.
Box 29
Alumnae Association, Philadelphia Club for Graduate Nurses, 1912.
Box 29
Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association Reports of Conventions, 1901, 1923.
Box 29
1929-1930.
Box 29
1931-1935.
Box 29
Report on P.S.N.A meetings, 1935-1939.
Box 29
Report on PA.S.N.A. Convention, 1940.
Box 29
Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association, Reports, 1932-1933.
Box 29
Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association Annual Reports, 1934-1939.
Box 29
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Convention of the Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association in joint session with Pennsylvania State League of Nursing Education and Pennsylvania State Organization for Public Health Nursing, October 1937.
Box 29
Handbook of the Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association for the use of Officers and Committee Chairmen.
Box 29
Nurses’ Training School Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Sixteenth Reunion, 1946 .
Box 29
District No. 1 Pennsylvania State Nurses' Association Official Bulletin Vol. 4, No. 5, 1943.
Box 29
Proceedings of the 35th Convention of the Pennsylvania State Nurses' Association, Altoona, PA, Oct 26-28, 1937.
Handbook of the Pennsylvania State Nurses' Association; Articles of Incorporation and By-laws 1930; Constitution and By-laws 1931.
GNAP 22nd Annual Convention, 1924.

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