Finding Aids
Finding aids for our manuscript collections are listed below. Manuscripts are divided into the following categories:
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Hospitals, Schools of Nursing and Nursing Alumnae Associations
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Voluntary Non-Profit Associations
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Professional and Military Associations
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Individuals
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Miscellaneous
Hospitals, Schools of Nursing and Nursing Alumni Associations
Albert Einstein Medical Center School of Nursing, 1928-1964, 0.8 lin. ft.
Alexian Brothers Hospital, 1885-1981, 0.4 lin. ft.
Alumni Assoc. of the Training School for Nurses of Philadelphia General Hospital, 1874-1991, 2.3 lin. feet
Alumni Assoc. of Philadelphia General Hospital Training School for Nurses, Photographs, 1885-1777
Alumnae Assoc. of the Mercy-Douglass Hospital School of Nursing, 1896-1980, 1.68 lin. ft.
Chautauqua School of Nursing, 1905, 0.4 lin. ft.
Chestnut Hill Hospital School of Nursing, 1769-1988, 24.33 lin. ft.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia School of Nursing, 1897-1987, 13.7 lin. ft.
Freedmen's Hospital Nurses Alumni Club of Philadelphia, 1973-1986, 0.1 lin. ft.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, 1894-1970, 35.2 lin. ft.
Lankenau Hospital School of Nursing, 1871-1992, 52.5 lin. ft.
Lock Haven Hospital, 1896-1964, 0.8 lin. ft.
Mercy-Douglass Hospital School of Nursing, 1896-1977, 23.68 lin. ft.
Muhlenberg Hospital School of Nursing, 1896-1961, 0.2 lin. ft.
Philadelphia General Hospital, 1885-1977, 50 lin. ft.
Philadelphia School of Nursing Medical Supply and Dispensary, 1903-1904, 0.4 lin. ft.
Presbyterian School of Nursing, 1871-1987, 148.1 lin. ft.
St. Luke's Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, c.1900, 1 folder
St. Mary's Hospital, Troy, N.Y., c.1920, 0.2 lin. ft.
Society of the Alumni of the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania, 1960-1980, 2 lin. ft.
Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1861-196, 46.35 lin. ft.
Voluntary Non-Profit Associations
Athens County Visiting Nurses Association, 1982-1992, 1.7 lin. ft.
Brandywine Home Health Agency, 1917-1990, 8.3 lin. ft.
Montgomery County Homemaker Home Health Aid Service, 1967-1990, 3.75 lin. ft.
Moorestown Visiting Nurse Association, 1909-1986, 3.6 lin. ft.
National Fund for Medical Education, 1949-1990, 178 lin. ft.
Neighborhood Visiting Nurse Association, 1900-1990, 11.15 lin. ft.
Princeton Community League Visiting Nurse Committee, 1924-1950, 0.2 lin. ft.
Starr Centre Association of Philadelphia, 1894-1973, 6.45 lin. ft.
Tri-County Visiting Nurse Association, 1894-1991, 2.9 lin. ft.
Visiting Nurse Association of Allegheny County, 1918-1990, 6.5 lin. ft.
Visiting Nurse Association of Ambler & Vicinity, 1922-1987, 8.5 lin. ft.
Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern Montgomery County, 1922-1984, 23 lin. ft.
Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia, 1976-1981, 6.45 lin. ft.
Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut, 1905-1987, 6 lin. ft.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York, 1993, 1 videotape
Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia, 1855-1987, 23.8 lin. ft.
Professional and Military Associations
American Legion, Pennsylvania Division, Helen Fairchild Post No. 412, 1919-1986, 1.33 lin. ft.
American Medical Women's Association, 1981, 6 tapes
American Nephrology Nurses' Association, 1986-1987, 0.2 lin. ft.
Andrew G. Curtin Association of Army Nurses, 1861-1903, 0.2 lin. ft.
Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, 1977-1998, 7 lin. ft.
Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing, 1970-1994, 4.5 lin. ft.
International Council of Nurses, 1946-1970, 16.5 lin. ft.
National Organization for Public Health Nurses, 1913-1953, 25 reels
Pennsylvania League for Nursing, 1948-1989, 11.25 lin. ft.
Pennsylvania Nurses' Association, District 1 , 1919-1973, 11.7 lin. ft.
Pennsylvania Nurses' Association, District 2, 1920-1978, 1.9 lin. ft.
Individuals
Aiken, Linda H., 1972-1986, 9.8 lin. ft.
Ashley, Jo Ann, 1942-1980, 10 lin. ft.
Austin, Ann L., 1940-1970, 1 lin. ft.
Brennan, Mary, 1941-1982, 2 lin. ft.
Brunner, Lillian S., 1910-1995, 20.33 lin. ft.
Capers, Cynthia Flynn, 1978-1982, 0.8 lin. ft.
Chase, Adaline, 1900-1975, 1.6 lin. ft.
Clymer, Mary V., 1886-1889, 0.2 lin. ft.
Darragh, Mildred, 1923-1928, 0.4 lin. ft.
D'Estl, Ernestine Kittl, 1888-1956, 1 volume
DiSandro, Edith Hyde, 1924-1927, 0.5 lin. ft.
Duffy, Eileen M., 1975-1977, 5 folders
Eataugh, Dorothy Mark, 1938, 1 volume
Emonds, Beverly L., 1965-1981, 0.4 lin. ft.
Erikson, Edith Ives, 1928-1985, 0.4 lin. ft.
Erikson, Ruth, 1932-1935, 4 folders
Errickson, Sara Maiter, 1937-1989, 0.8 lin. ft.
Fagin, Claire H., 1926-1991, 11.18 lin. ft.
Francis, Susan C., 1934-1987, 1 folder
Godfrey, Mary Robinson, 1910-1987, 1 folder
Goodrich, Annie Warburton, 1871-1955, 1.25 lin. ft.
Griscom, Edith Lewis Palmer, 1909-1912, 0.2 lin. ft.
Gruber, Mildred, 1904-1906, 1 folder
Heffernan, Bernardine, 1968-1986, 1 folder
Hoff, Bertha, 1913-1914, 1 volume
Holman, Lydia, 1888-1960, 1 folder
Izcka, Jadwiga, 1939-1960, 1 folder
Johnston, Margaret Alice, 1944-1945, 0.4 lin. ft.
Johnstone, Marie, 1906, 1 folder
Jones, Elizabeth, 1899-1946, 1 folder
Keeler, Jane D., 1935-1985, 0.6 lin. ft.
Kennedy, Cecile, 1939-1957, 1 folder
Lambertsen, Eleanor C. , 1915-1977, 7 lin. ft.
Landis, Nadine, 1930-1988, 21 lin. ft.
Lasek, Elinor Fry, 1935-1938, 0.25 lin. ft.
Leininger, Jenny, 1915-1986, 1 folder
Lemley, Alice and Lillie, 1887-1888, 2 folders
Leonard, Dorothy Harvey, 1947-1987, 2.5 lin. ft.
Lynch, Theresa I., 1896-1986, 1.4 lin. ft.
Matthews, Irene, 1871-1944 0.8 lin. ft.
McCarron, Sarah, 1917-1964, 1.7 lin. ft.
McCosh, Isabella Guthrie, 1897, 1 folder
M'Cready, Mary Anne, 1904, 0.2 lin. ft.
Mereness, Dorothy Ann, 1910-1991, 3.2 lin. ft.
Morris, Mabel Harmon, 1935-1990, 8.75 lin. ft.
Newman, Edna Albert, 1924-1936, 1 folder
Nightingale, Florence, 1856-1896, 0.2 lin. ft.
Nunan, Edith, 1887-1976, 4.6 lin. ft.
Olinatz, Nanette, 1958-1960, 7 folders
Overholtz, Ella Florence, 1921, 10 folders
Page, Nancy J., 1960-1962, 0.4 lin. ft.
Peplau, Hildegard E., 1985, 1 folder
Radbill, Samuel X., 1985-1989, 1 folder
Rath, Charlotte Tyson, 1928-1970, 0.8 lin. ft.
Rauschenberger, Dorothy, 1914-1986, 1 folder
Ritter, Beatrice, 1947-1957, 3 folders
Robinson, Alice Merritt, 1920-1983, 8 lin. ft.
Rogers, Wesley Wiley, 1987, 0.2 lin. ft.
Saba, Virginia, 1937-1972, 1 lin. ft.
Schlotfeldt, Rozella M., 190?-1993, 3 lin. ft.
Schwartz, Doris, 1917-1992, 0.8 lin. ft.
Schorr, Thelma M., 1968-1989, 1.6 lin. ft.
Smith, Dorothy M., 1954-1997, 3.75 lin. ft.
Somers, Anne Ramsey, 1933-1982, 0.4 lin. ft.
Soper, Martha Lenora Collett, 1919-1920, 1 folder
Stachniewicz, Stephanie A., 1967-1977, 1.25 lin. ft.
Stern, Beverly Peril, 1955-1960, 2 folders
Strumpf, Edna E. LaPorte, 1933-1991, 1 lin. ft.
Todd, C. Edwina, 1947-1953, 1 folder
Tram, Rose Anna , 1915-1976, 1 lin. ft.
van der Peet, Robert A., 1989, 1 folder
Weiss, Olga, 1928-1974, 0.8 lin. ft.
West, Roberta M., 1886-1937, 10 lin. ft.
Whitmer, Laura Strickler, 1934-1947, 1 folder
Wilcox, Barbara, 1966-1981, 0.8 lin. ft.
York, Edith M., 1922-1923, 1 folder
Miscellaneous Groups
Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
Evening Bulletin, 1905-1975, 0.8 lin. ft.
William Helfand Postcard Collection, 1900-1990, 0.4 lin. ft.
William Helfand Sheet Music Collection, 1912-1939, 1 folder
History of Nursing in Philadelphia, 1973-1974, 0.4 lin. ft.
J. B. Lippincott Company, 1871-1931, 1 folder
Nurses for the Future Conference, 1987, 1 folder
Philadelphia General Hospital History Task Force Oral History Project, 1994, 0.4 lin. ft.
Philadelphia Mayor's Commission on Health in the Eighties, 1983-1984, 0.8 lin. ft.
Peter Short Photograph Collection, 1993-1994, 0.25 lin. ft.
Theodore Starr Savings Bank, 1896-1901, 0.2 lin. ft.
World War I Photographs from France, 1918-1925, 0.4 lin. ft.
Michael Zwerdling Postcard Collection, 1907-1916, 1 folder