Photographs of St. Luke's Hospital Nursing School Students, 1884-1886
Four sepia photographs of the first class of student nurses in St. Luke's Hospital Training School for Nurses, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dr. William Estes, director of the hospital, appointed Miss M. J. Merritt from Bellevue Hospital in New York City as the first principal of St. Luke's Hospital Training School for Nurses. This school for nurses was the fourth school established in the United States. Bellevue was the first such school. In the 1870s St. Luke's Hospital was the only hospital between Philadelphia and New York equipped to treat industrial and railroad accident emergencies. Ten years later the hospital increased it services to include general treatment of both male and female patients necessitating the need for more nurses.
Full Title
Photographs of St. Luke's Hospital Nursing School Students, 1884-1886
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Contributor(s)
Language
English
Type
Form
image/tiff
Date Captured
2018-02-22
Identifier
SC Photo 0032
https://archivesspace.lib.lehigh.edu/repositories/3/resources/361
photographs-prints_257
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CopiBook Cobalt HD
Rachel Gingrich
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Physical Description
Sepia
Subject (LCSH)
Record Origin
Converted from Dublin Core to MODS during migration from CONTENTdm to Islandora
