University of Pennsylvania Finding Aids

This collection contains photographs related to Philadelphia General Hospital. Images includes people, activities, buildings, and equipment, ranging in date from the early 1900s through the 1970s.

This collection consists of papers, administrative records, artifacts, and photographs that document many operational aspects of the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia General Hospital. Of note are the personal papers of Alice Fisher.

Edith Erikson Ives was a graduate of Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) School of Nursing who served during World War II. This collection includes records of Ives' PGH activities, including her involvement in the Alumnae Association, as well as her personal papers, photographs, and scrapbook.

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.

This small collection consists of lecture notes taken by Eileen M. Duffy, a student at the Philadelphia General Hospital Training School for Nurses. It is a record of the curriculum in the last years of the school's existence: Duffy graduated with the last nursing class in 1977.

Elinor Fry Lasek graduated from the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing in the 1930s. This album contains photos of her student days, including classmates, buildings, and PGH staff, especially Dr. Dorothea M. Killian.

This scrapbook includes newsclippings, photographs and printed matter, assembled by Dorothy Eataugh. Eataugh created this scrapbook in 1938 and presents a cursory development of the nursing profession and the larger world of health care from the Roman Empire to the early twentieth century.

These papers contain notes and other curriculum material used by Loretta Ruggiero, an instructor in public health nursing at Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing during the 1960s-1970s.

This is a collection of Philadelphia General Hospital oral histories conducted by Manrico A. Troncelliti in the late 1980s. The interviewees are doctors who work at Philadelphia General Hospital at various stages of their careers, generally between 1920 and 1980, though more content is from pre 1950s.

This collection consists of the personal papers of Martha Emily Shaw, Philadelphia native and graduate of the Training School for Nurses of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. This collection contains a volume of her lecture notes from 1911. Shaw served as a nurse during World War I at the University of Pennsylvania's Base Hospital No. 20 in France. Upon her return from the war, she became an active member of the American Legion’s Helen Fairchild Post #412. Her activities with the Post are documented in this collection's photographs.

These lecture notes were taken while Darragh was a student at Philadelphia General Hospital in the 1920s.

The Bates Center's Small Collections are various, unrelated accessions that have been individually assigned collection numbers. Many of the Small Collections consist of a single folder.

Madeline Olga Weiss is a psychiastric nurse who has been active in nursing journal publishing. This collection includes personal correspondence, materials related to Philadelphia General Hospital, and publications.

This artificial collection contains miscellaneous small donations related to the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing. They were primarily given by alumni over a period of many years, but some items are of unknown provenance. This collection may include artifacts, publications, personal papers, photographs, and records related to the PGH Training School for Nurses.

This collection consists of transcripts of oral history interview project by the Temple University Urban Archives in 1993 and 1994. Interviewees discussed their memories of the Philadelphia General Hospital.

These microfilm reels contain the records of students and nurses at Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) in the early 20th century.

This collection contains records from Stephanie A. Stachniewicz's time as Director of School of Nursing and Nursing Service at Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH). Materials include meeting minutes and other administrative records.