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Harriet Douglas Whetten

Date: 1860
Description: Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18...
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Jane Jennings

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: L. Lee, 1822 Helena Street, Norma Epermann, 217 North Orchard Street, and Mary Sherburne, 222 South Carroll Street, preparing supplies. Public health visit...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Rosemary Kreilkamp, 222 South Carroll Street, Alice Sanborn, 3005 Harvard Drive, and Ann L. Schmich, director of the Visiting Nurse Service in Madison, exa...
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Cadet Nurses in Uniform

Date: 04 12 1944
Description: Four student nurses from four schools of nursing, model the new summer uniform of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps. L to R: Jean Kolb, Gertrude Anderson...
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Red Cross Nurses

Date: 1918
Description: Sisters Bettina (left) and Alice Jackson (right), wearing their World War I Red Cross uniforms.
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North Vietnamese Children

Date: 12 12 1965
Description: Nurse caring for two North Vietnamese children who were wounded by U.S. bombing. This official North Vietnamese photograph was released about June 1, 1966,...
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U.S. Army Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: Captain Olena Cole of the army nurse corps is doing graduate work in physical therapy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is posed by a large medic...
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IH War Materials Division Manager Makes Blood Donation

Date: 1943
Description: Two nurses test C.E. Stevens' blood pressure and hemoglobin prior to his blood donation at the Red Cross blood bank. The original caption reads: "Blood pre...
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Tomac Plasma Bank

Date: 1944
Description: A woman in a white dress, probably a nurse or volunteer, places a container into a "Tomac Plasma Bank," a refrigeration unit developed by International Har...
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Medical Treatment Room at Quad Cities Tank Arsenal

Date: 07 10 1942
Description: A man sits in a chair while a nurse examines his eye beneath a light in the Sterilizing and Eye Treatment Room of International Harvester's Quad Cities Tan...
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Naval Reserve Blood Drive

Date: 12 04 1951
Description: Navy Radioman Burton Fischer is shown on a cot as he donates blood during a blood drive for naval reservists from the naval reserve training center. At lef...
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Operating Room at the United States Naval Hospital

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Description: Interior of an operating room at the United States Naval Hospital, established in 1834 on the original site of Fort Nelson. The view includes operating tab...
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United States General Hospital

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Description: View of Ward 15 of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical recons...
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Taking Notes

Date: 10 11 1966
Description: American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, who covered three wars, taking notes on an interview with Major Kim Pil Dal, a Korean nurse in Vietnam. Capti...
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Anoxic Faint Chamber

Date: 02 1945
Description: Gwen Jensen, a female flight nurse, poses for a photograph during flight training at Alameda Naval Air Strip. In an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate ...
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Flight Nurse During Training

Date: 02 1945
Description: A female flight nurse during flight training with patients. She is leaning over the patient in a bunk bed to place a mask. The student is wearing a heavy l...
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Flight Nurse with Her Father

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h...
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Nurse in Scrub Room

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, is washing her hands in the 148th General Hospital's scrub room. Hyland is wearing a white cloth around her hair, ...
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Imprisoned Navy Nurses Come Home

Date: 03 1945
Description: Two nurses, Leona Jackson, left, and Mary Rose Harrington Nelson, right, return to Guam after being imprisoned in Los Banos, Philippines, for over two year...

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