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Nurses -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Annie E. Johns Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0010
Abstract

Annie E. Johns (1831-1889) served as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, and earned the honorific nickname, "The Florence Nightingale of the South." She later wrote about her wartime experiences.

This collection includes correspondence, articles, poetry, and personal narratives.

Dates: 1846 - 1909

Virginia Russell Reavis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0183
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 September 2000; various military paperwork, 1944-1945; various photographs of Reavis during her Army Air Force service, 1943; an article published from the Tideland News, Swansboro, NC, 2000; an Army Air Evacuation Nurse Wings metal uniform pin located in Artifact box.

Dates: 1943-2000

Unknown Spanish American War Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0669
Content Description This album depicts nurses and male medical personnel at Camp Cuba Libre near Jacksonville, Florida and Camp Onward in Savannah, Georgia. Photographs also include a patient being carried to a hospital train, the disinfecting tent, soldiers cooking and a few photos show the women leaving Camp Cuba Libre in a military carriage. Of particular note is an image of the four Native American nuns who served. These four women, Susan Bordeaux (the Reverend Mother M. Anthony),Ella Clark (the Reverend...
Dates: circa 1898

Edna Andrews Weston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0091
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 June 1999; various photographs of Weston's Navy Nurse Corps service, January 1944-October 1946.

Dates: circa 1944-1999