Series 1 . Places.
Scope and Contents note
These images are divided into subseries based on the place identified. Most of the photographs are of visiting nurses providing
in-home patient care, but there are also depictions of outdoor scenes: notably building exteriors and public health demonstrations.
Baltimore.
"Baltimore," nurse and patient with a leg injury, undated.
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"Baltimore," group of nurses sitting around a table, undated.
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Group of nurses sitting around a table, undated.
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Chicago.
Staff of Nurses of Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago Including School Nurses, group photo, 1909.
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"Chicago," nurse, mother, and infant, post-delivery, undated.
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"Chicago, Illinois," nurse with female patient in wheelchair, undated.
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Cleveland.
"Cleveland, Nursing for minor injuries," nurse tending a child with a bandaged head, 1913.
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"Cleveland, Nursing for minor injuries," nurse tending a child with a bandaged head, 1913.
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"Cleveland," nurse tending African American patient, undated.
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"Cleveland," nurse tending African American patient, undated.
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"Nursing Services Cleveland," nurse with elderly patient, undated.
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"Cleveland," mother, infant, and older child, undated.
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Framingham, MA.
Framingham Community Health Station, building exterior, undated.
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"Framingham, Mass. Company's first major demonstration conducted with the National Tuberculosis Association to control tuberculosis,
then the third leading cause of death," nurses with women and children, 1916-1923.
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"Framingham, Mass. Company's first major demonstration conducted with the National Tuberculosis Association to control tuberculosis,
then the third leading cause of death," nurses with women and children, 1916-1923.
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"Baby Welfare Station, Framingham," infant check up, undated.
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Framingham Children's Health Camp, nurses and children outdoors, undated.
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Clean Milk' Demonstration in Framingham, Massachusetts, 1917.
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Clean Milk' Demonstration in Framingham, Massachusetts, 1917.
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Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada.
"Thetford Mines," road, undated.
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Thetford Mines Maternity Clinic, undated.
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New York City.
"Henry Street nurse taken in 1903 near St. Peter's Church and Cemetary in the Bronx," nurse in carriage, 1903.
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"Welfare Nursing, NYC, convalescing from typhoid fever," nurse and doctor with patient, undated.
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Other Places.
"Neu Beeby, St. Louis, MO. 1919 PH course, 1921 married", 1916-1921.
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"Neu Beeby, St. Louis, MO. 1919 PH course, 1921 married", 1916-1921.
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"Welfare Division Nurses - New Orleans, an Instructive Visit," two nurses getting into car, undated.
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Back is labeled "Baltimore, 1912," but the front is labeled "The Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia," nurse with mother
and infant, 1912.
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"Providence VNA," group photo, 1912.
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Series 2 . Individuals.
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of portraits of individuals, with one candid group photo.
"Miss Carolyn M. Hidden, Field Supervisor, Keystone Territory", undated.
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"Place: Miss Von Miklos' Studio, Nursing Services Pictures" portrait, December 14, 1938.
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"Mrs. Margaret Howard", undated.
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"Jerome Apfel, Accounting Bureau Head, Associated with Nursing Service", undated.
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"Bernadine Stiegal, Group Nursing Consultant", undated.
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"Miss Haupt", undated.
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"Left to Right: Williard, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Hegeman, Fiske", undated.
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Series 3 . Offices, equipment, uniforms, and supplies.
Scope and Contents note
This series' images show the offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Welfare Division, along with other office interiors
of unknown organizations. There are also photographs of supplies used by visiting nurses and one image showing a public health
education exhibit.
"The Staff for Urinalyses in the Normal School Laboratory During the Medical Examination Campaign." / "Nurses Engages to Canvass
and Assist Physicians in Home Examination Work.", undated.
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"Nursing Services Supply Room", undated.
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Office interior with female clerks, undated.
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"Welfare Division, Nursing Services," office interior, undated.
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"Welfare Nursing, Luncheon to Nursing Supervisors. Standing, left to right: Beulah Osborne, Mary Horm, Ruth Waterbury, Marie
Houle, Emma Rocque, Irene MacCullough, Monica Moore, Eugenia Atwell, Mary Dickerman, Elizabeth Wood, Carolyn C. Hidden, Hilga
Nelson, Vera Warner MacVittie, Maude Steeves, Elizabeth Tennent, Theresa O'Neill, Anna Barr, Emma Habenicht. Seated, left
to right: Matilda Johnson, Alice Aherm, Dr. Donald B. Armstrong, Helen LaMalle, Dr. Lee Frankel, Alice Bagley, Minnie Bridges
Cunningham", January 27, 1925.
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"Welfare Division, Nursing Service," nurse standing, undated.
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Visiting Nurse offices, coat racks, undated.
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"Uniform and Equipment," table with containers, bag, other supplies, undated.
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"Uniforms and Equipment," full body portrait of visiting nurse, undated.
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"West Division Nursing Services - Uniforms and Equipment," Visiting Nurse Metropolitan Life textile, undated.
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"Convent on exhibit," Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. public health display, infant textiles, February 10, 1926.
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Miss Delano and Staff in her Office. Upper row, left to right: Sarah Addison, Harriet Douglas, Vashti Bartlett, Virginia Ward,
Anna Reeves, A. Maury Carter, Lucy Minnigerode, Katrina Hertzer. Lower row, left to right: Helen S. Hay, Clara D. Noyes, Jane
A. Delano, Agnes G. Deans, Anna Kerr., undated.
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Series 4 . Vehicles.
Scope and Contents note
This series contains photographs of nurses and their modes of transportation at unidentified locations. Several of the photographs
are duplicates of one nurse and her bicycle. Accompanying those photos is a print of a newspaper clipping about visiting nurses
using automobiles.
Photocopy from newspaper, nurse in automobile, undated.
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Visting nurses, bicycle and automobile (photo collage), undated.
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Visiting nurse on bicycle, isolated from background, undated.
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"Welfare Division Nurse," Visiting nurse on bicycle, undated.
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Visiting nurse on bicycle, undated.
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Series 5 . Pamphlets and printed items.
Scope and Contents note
This series consists mainly of photographic prints of pamphlet covers. These pamphlets, posters, and other ephemera were for
the most part issued by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., though there are also unrelated informational materals about
WWI nursing and the influenza epidemic.
News clipping, "Ready for the Call": visiting nurses driving autombiles, undated.
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Visting Nurses for Employees, poster, undated.
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A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. poster, undated.
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Your Friend the Nurse, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. poster, undated.
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Welfare Publications, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. poster, undated.
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A War Upon Consumption, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. poster, 1909.
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"A War Upon Consumption first welfare health pamphlet", 1909.
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The Welfare Division informational sign for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., undated.
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"Swat the Fly Campaign," From Flies and Filth to Fever to Food poster, 1909.
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Sheet with biographical information, nurse casualities in WWI - Frances Bartlett, Curry Desha Breckenridge, and Ruth V. and
Viola E. Lundholm, undated.
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Deaths Registered to Influenza, 1976.
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Series 6 . Immunizations and other public health campaigns.
Scope and Contents note
This series contains photographs depicting public health initiatives at unidentified locations. Three of the images show diptheria
immunization events, and the other two illustrate birth registration and a sanitation campaign.
"Clean up campaigns", undated.
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"Birth Registration," man, woman, and child, undated.
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"Diptheria," vaccination, nurse and doctor with a woman and two children, 1948.
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"1st Metropolitan diptheria campaign, agency staff often set example by having own children immunized first", 1925.
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"1st Metropolitan diptheria campaign, agency staff often set example by having own children immunized first", 1925.
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Series 7 . Military.
Scope and Contents note
These images are divided into two subseries: pre-Korean War and the Korean War. With one exception, they were all copied from
published printed sources and are captioned. The unknown patient may not be related to military healthcare.
Pre-Korean War.
Typical Emergency Hospital - Corey Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts, tents on field, undated.
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A crowded European army hospital, undated.
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Korean War.
Korean War: The Hospital ship USNS Repose, arriving in Pusan. Soldiers wounded during the fighting were evacuated by air and
sea to hospitals in Japan and the United States. While the forces from the Inch'on beachhead advances toward the Han River
line, those advancing from the south took the high ground northwest of Yongsan and drove toward a junction with the units
in the north., 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Typical terrain of the area near the reservoir, showing the narrow winding road and electric power station where
the U.N. forces were delayed until the parachuted bridge was assembled and put in place. On 11 December, after a thirteen-day
fight, the U.N. forces broke out of the communist trap and emerged from the hills of northeast Korea onto the plains of Hamhung.,
1950-1953.
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Korean War: UNCACK Chief Nurse with Korean women examining American women's uniforms donated to hospitals, August 1952.
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Korean War: Army nurse off duty, 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Casualities of fight for Hill 931 receiving medical attention at an aid station in 2d Division area, 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Casualities of fight for Hill 931 receiving medical attention at an aid station in 2d Division area, 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Medical aid men dressing wounds at an aid station near base of White Horse., 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Helicopter landing to pick up a wounded soldier for evacuation to a rear area hospital. Container on the side
of the helicopter holds the casualty., 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Litter bearers of the 7th Division, moving cautiously over ice and snow, bring in a wounded man, 1950-1953.
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Korean War: A nurse aboard a plane checks her patients during a flight from Korea to southern Japan, 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Liberated American are escorted down the ramp of a C-124 upon arrival in Japan for medical treatment before continuing
the trip back to the Unites States, 1950-1953.
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Korean War: Liberated American are escorted down the ramp of a C-124 upon arrival in Japan for medical treatment before continuing
the trip back to the Unites States, 1950-1953.
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Korean? Patient, undated.
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Series 8 . Other.
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of two images: a photograph of hospital beds, context unknown, and a modern photograph of nurses working
at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Clinic interior, beds, undated.
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"Intensive Nursing Care at HUP", undated, 1980s?.
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