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Nightingale: Lady and Legend

May 12, 2020 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Some people seem not quite real.  Not in the sense that they are imaginary, fictional beings; they existed, and they

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Two ladies sitting together on rocks, one with her arm around the other.

Seeking Leek Island: A Personal Journey

November 12, 2019 Circulating Now

By Aliya Rahman ~ The 1918 scrapbook I wrote about in Seeking Leek Island: A Place of Healing reveals Leek Island Military Hospital as a

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Postcard featuring a color illustration of a girl dressed as a nurse bringing something on a tray to a boy sitting in a chair.

The Young at Heart

February 14, 2018 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ A gallery of WWI era postcards from the Zwerdling Postcard Collection.

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Postcard featuring a photograph of 3 Red Cross nurses standing in front of a Red Cross tent.

World War I Centenary Forum: A Call to Service

April 6, 2017 Circulating Now

Ginny A. Roth, will speak at 2 PM ET today, April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “A Call to Service: Women Represented

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The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War

World War I Centenary Forum: Stories from the NLM Collections

April 3, 2017 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Anne Rothfeld One hundred years ago, on April 2, 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson spoke to the US Congress requesting

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Photographs of 3 woman in nursing uniforms, generally including variations on a collared shirt, cap and apron.

A Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of All Nations

May 12, 2016 Circulating Now

By Anne Marie Rafferty ~ This essay on the International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection, ca. 1950 was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library

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A sentimental drawing of a nurse.

Nurses—The Heart of Healing

May 6, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth  Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a

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