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| American Nursing:
History and Interpretation by Mary M. Roberts,
1954: the typescript setting copy, page proofs and her
copy of the book; with an early notebook and an encomium
on her retirement as editor of the American Journal of
Nursing by Isabel M. Stewart. |
Established in 1966 with help from a United
States Public Health Service grant and the support of the
Boston University School of Nursing, the History of Nursing
Archives contains the personal and professional papers of
nursing leaders; records of the schools of nursing; public
health and professional nursing organizations; histories of
various American and foreign schools of nursing, including
early textbooks; as well as a very extensive book collection.
These manuscripts and books document the evolution and contribution
of the nursing profession in the fields of public health and
military history.
Contained within the Archives are over
200 letters dating from 1851 to 1900 from Florence Nightingale,
the founder of modern nursing. Within the book collection
are first editions of her writings, including A
Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army During
the Late War with Russia, which was published anonymously
in 1859. Also inlcuded is a sixpence edition of Notes
on Nursing for the Labouring Classes signed by Nightingale
with a letter dated September 29, 1869.
Some other nursing leaders whose papers
constitute the Archives are Florence Blanchfield (1884-1971),
Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps during World War II;
Lucile Petry Leone, Director of the United States Cadet Nursing
Corps during World War II and the first nurse Assistant Surgeon
General of the United States; Jessie M. Scott, Director of
the Division of Nurses of the United States Public Health
Service; Margaret G. Arnstein, professor of public health
nursing and Dean of Yale University School of Nursing; and
Theresa Wolfson, an economic consultant for the American Nurses
Association. These are merely a few collections in the History
of Nursing Archives. Anyone wishing further information or
to pursue research on any of these collections should send
queries to:
Diane Gallagher
Nursing Archives
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
archives@bu.edu
For a list of Nursing Individuals collected by the Center or Nursing Organizations.
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A photograph of a hospital ward
in the nineteenth century.
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