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Cornelia Mercer Poses With Two Fellow Nurses

March 14, 2018 circulating now Leave a comment

Pediatric Nurse Cornelia Mercer with fellow nurses at the Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1909.

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