The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue
Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United Stated to be run according
to Florence Nightingale’s nursing principles. These principles, among other
things, called for strict rules of hygiene and cleanliness, as well as having a
staff of trained nurses supervised by a woman who would be in charge of nursing
services in the hospital. Plans for the school began a year earlier, when a
group of women, led by Louisa Lee Schuyler, concluded in a report to the State
Board of Charities that the condition of the public hospitals of the City and
County of New York was unacceptable. They proposed that a supply of trained
nurses would greatly improve care in these hospitals, and formed a committee to
look into the creation of a training school for nurses. The Chair of this
committee was Mr. William Osborn and Dr. W. Gill Wylie was one of the school’s
strong supporters on the medical staff at Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Wylie undertook
a trip to Europe to visit nursing schools in England, France and Germany and
came home with many ideas and a letter of advice and support from Florence
Nightingale.
After the committee convinced the Commissioners of the
Board of Charities to allow them to administer nursing in five wards at Bellevue
Hospital—on a trial basis only—the first six students were admitted to the
Training School. The committee raised funds to cover the difference between what
the Hospital’s cost would have been otherwise and the cost of training. Sister
Helen Bowdin of the All Saints Sisterhood in London was hired as Superintendent.
The first students in the 1870s lived at a residence at 314 East 26th
Street. The success of this five-ward trial convinced the Commissioners that the
school was a necessity, and nursing work was extended to all the wards of the
hospital.
Early training involved only instruction in basic
cleanliness, neatness, and attending to patient comfort, but by the late 1870s
doctors from Bellevue Hospital began to give lectures in Anatomy, Physiology,
and Hygiene. The Training School grew rapidly; by 1879 there were 63 enrolled
students and more applicants than could be accepted. The first official
building for the school, that included both classroom space and student rooms,
opened in 1878 at 426 E. 26th Street. The building was purchased by
Mrs. William Henry Osborn and leased to the Board of Managers of the Bellevue
Training School for Nurses, and it was known initially as the “Nurse’s Home.”
The Bellevue school pin, designed by Tiffany & Co., was
adopted in 1880 and worn by graduates; it portrayed a crane, representing
vigilance, surrounded by a wreath of poppies, signifying the role of nurses of
allaying pain and bringing rest to the suffering. The unbroken circle of blue,
with the word “Bellevue” at the bottom, represented constancy.
There was no established uniform in the early years of the
school, but by the 1880s the blue and white striped fabric was adopted as the
uniform fabric, with the style left to the discretion of the individual student.
Miss Euphemia Van Rensselaer is given credit for the introduction of the blue
and white striped uniform. By 1900 the style of the uniform was standardized,
and the Bellevue cap had become an established part of the uniform. The 1880s
also saw the introduction of a registry of graduate nurses run by the Board of
Managers at Bellevue Hospital.
In 1909 the nursing school and the student residence moved
to a new building at 440 E. 26th Street. This building continued to
be used until 1954. The former school building at 426 E. 26th Street
was attached to a new six-story structure and renamed Osborn Hall in honor of
the donors, Mr. and Mrs. William Church Osborn. This building was leased to the
Alumnae Association, who managed the Alumnae Registry from there, and served as
a residence for graduate nurses. Osborn Hall also included a restaurant and an
assembly room.
Bellevue Hospital was also the home for other schools in
its early years. The Bellevue School for Midwives, the first official school for
midwives in the United States, opened in 1911.
The School for Midwives remained open until 1936.
The Mills Training School for Men opened in 1888, as a school to train
male nurses to work in men’s wards of hospitals. Mills closed in 1910, and
reopened to students in 1920. The Mills and Bellevue Schools of Nursing merged
under a single administration in 1929, becoming the “Bellevue Schools of
Nursing.”
Bellevue Hospital and the nursing school felt the impact of
World War I. In June, 1916, Superintendent Clara Noyes initiated the enrollment
of nurses for Base Hospital No. 1; in October, the work of organization was
transferred to Miss Brink. This unit was not called up until early 1918; on
Feb. 25th, 1918, 65 graduates embarked on S. S. Olympic under Chief
Nurse Beatrice M. Bamber. Back at Bellevue, Superintendent Amy Hilliard led the
school through the difficult war years, as many nurses left to serve in the
Armed Forces, and the city of New York suffered through an influenza epidemic
that took the lives of eleven student nurses. In the immediate aftermath of WWI,
enrollment fell and the hospital suffered from a considerable shortage of
nursing staff. Miss Catherine DeLong led an intensive recruitment effort that
paid off with a record enrollment for the entering class of 1923.
In 1929 the Department of Hospitals at Bellevue was
reorganized; as part of this, the Board of Managers was relieved of the
financial responsibility of running the Bellevue School of Nursing. In 1936,
both the hospital and the school shifted to an eight-hour day rather than the
twelve-hour day that had previously been in place. Four years later, in 1940,
the school’s curriculum was also reorganized, with the introduction of different
stages of study, with freshman, junior, and senior years. At this time the
school also established an affiliation with the Henry Street Settlement for
students interested in public health nursing.
During WWII, Bellevue signed on
for the Cadet Nurse Corps program, and enrolled nearly 600 Cadet Nurses over the
course of the program. Bellevue also sent a unit to WWII, the 1st
General Hospital, led by Chief Nurse Thelma J. Ryan. The Mills School closed to
students for WWII. With the Cadet Nurse Corps in place, Bellevue admitted and
graduated four classes a year. Mills reopened to male students in 1948. Under
Blanche Edwards’ leadership, the Bellevue Schools of Nursing in 1942 introduced
a baccalaureate program in conjunction with New York University, whereby
students who so chose could do additional coursework to graduate with a degree
from NYU. With the affiation with NYU, the governance of the Schools became
tripartite – New York City Department of Hospitals, the Board of Managers, and
New York University, College of Medicine. A few years later, in 1947, Bellevue
shifted to a forty-hour, five-day work week for both student nurses and hospital
staff.
The 1950s were a time of change
for the Schools of Nursing. A twelve-week psychiatric nursing module was
introduced to comply with new requirement issued by the New York State Education
Department. Affiliation with the Willard Parker Hospital (for communicable
disease) was terminated in 1952, and at that time dealing with communicable
disease was integrated into the overall school curriculum. Four years later
Bellevue Hospital opened its own Communicable Disease Unit, which opened up
further opportunities for student experience. Students were also offered new
opportunities to study in Pediatrics—the care of premature infants—and in Home
Care. In 1957, Mills students were permitted to study obstetric nursing for the
first time in Mills history.
In 1952, the administration of
the Schools of Nursing and the Bellevue Hospital Nursing Service was split for
the first time, with the creation of two new titles “Associate Director for the
Schools of Nursing” and the “Associate Director for Nursing Service.” These
positions remained under a single Director of the Bellevue Schools of Nursing
and Nursing Service. Elsie Palmer was the first Associate Director of the
Schools of Nursing. The “old 440” building that had contained the School of
Nursing and student housing was demolished to make way for a larger, more modern
structure to accommodate a larger student body; the new building opened in
1954. Also in 1954, the schools enrolled in the newly formed National Student
Nurses Association. Joseph Barry, Mills Class of 1954, was the first Recording
Secretary.
The Mills school name was
brought back in 1958, when the Bellevue Schools of Nursing became the “Bellevue
and Mills Schools of Nursing.” In 1959, the tradition of admitting students to
both a Spring and a Fall class each year was discontinued, and the Schools began
admitting just one class to enter in September. 1959 also marked the entry of
the last class eligible for a Bachelor of Science degree at NYU.
In 1963 the curriculum was
shorted from three years to two years and nine months to enable students to take
the State Board examinations in July (rather than having to wait until
November). At this time the school initiated discussions with Hunter College of
the City University of New York about alternate types of nursing programs that
might be possible. (NYU was approached first, given the university’s prior
affiliation with Bellevue, but no agreement was reached.) Negotiations with
Hunter College concluded with a contract signed in August 1967 that transferred
the schools’ facilities to Hunter College, which would offer students a
Baccalaureate Degree with four years of study. The contract became effective in
September 1967, and no further student were admitted to the Bellevue and Mills
Schools of Nursing after that date. The final diploma class graduated in 1969.
Prominent graduates include: Isabel Hampton Robb, Lavinia
L. Dock, Edith A. Draper, Jane A. Delano, and Lucy Minnigerode.
The Bellevue Alumnae Association was founded in 1889, and
incorporated in 1898 as the Alumnae Association of the New York Training School
for Nurses Connected with Bellevue Hospital, New York. In 1905 it was renamed
the Alumnae Association of the Training School for Nurses Attached to Bellevue
Hospital. Its final name change occurred in 1947, when it became the Alumnae
Association of the Bellevue School of Nursing, Inc. It is the oldest
association of graduate nurses in the United States, and in 1897 it was one of
the ten societies which helped to form the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae of the
United States and Canada, a group that later became the American Nurses
Association.
The Association was originally founded to “establish good
fellowship, establish an annuity, and provide friendly and pecuniary assistance
to nurses in time of need.” It initially managed a funds to help nurses in need
and managed a Registry to place nurses in private homes and in hospitals but by
the 1940s it became more of a professional association, creating a scholarship
fund and working to advance the profession of nursing on the behalf of the
alumnae. Although the School of Nursing closed its doors in 1969 and there are
no new members to be recruited, the Association continues to organize events and
hold regular meetings and remains active today. In 2001, the alumnae
successfully completed a $1 million endowment drive for the Center for Nursing
History at the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association, which was
renamed, in their honor, the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History.
The historical materials of the Bellevue School of Nursing
Alumnae Association include
The collection is divided into five series: Series 1,
People; Series 2, Student Life; Series 3, Photographs; Series 4, Annual Reports;
Series 5, Books.
Includes items from alumnae as well as from the alumnae
association, such as a bell used to awaken students in the residence, a series
of dolls dressed in Bellevue student uniforms, military memorabilia accumulated
by alumnae.
Adams, Sarah W. 1882 SEE
copied letters in Robb file
24. Bowdin, Helen
(Sister)
South African Medical Journal 33:36, 18
August 1962
25. Goodrich,
Annie Warburton
26. Nightingale,
Florence. Copy of letter to Dr. Wylie (1872), miscellaneous materials about
her life and influence.
Original letter to Dr.
Wylie in frame - SEE Artifact Box 6
27. Nightingale,
Florence. Miscellaneous materials about her life and influence.
28. Nightingale,
Florence. Letter from Nightingale to Mrs. Joseph Hobson, August 21, 1873.
29. Noyes, Clara
D.
30. Noyes, Clara
D. Letters from Noyes to Dr. Taliaferro Clark and to Miss Reading, 1916, 1919
SEE ALSO Series 6: Artifacts Box 1 for badge from the 1947 Congress of the
International Council of Nurses.
31. Nutting, Mary
Adelaide Osborn, Alice Dodge
32. Richards,
Linda
33. Schuyler,
Louisa Lee
34. Schuyler,
Louisa Lee. Correspondence with Dr. Mary Forrester Hobart, 1915-1917. (re
Bellevue’ status as first professional nursing school in the US
35. Tyndall, Rose
Mary Murphy – “A History of the Bellevue School for Midwives: 1911-1936” (Pt.
1)
36. Tyndall, Rose
Mary Murphy – “A History of the Bellevue School for Midwives: 1911-1936” (Pt.
2)
37. Wylie, Walker
Gill
Box 3:
War/military materials
2.
Ryan, Thelma J. Biographical material, 1946-1993
3.
Ryan, Thelma J. “1st General Hospital from Col. A.A.
Albright’s files with pictures for identification”
4.
Ryan, Thelma J. “The 1st (U.S.) General Hospital, World War
II, 1942-1945.” (Compiled in binder by T. J. Ryan)
5.
Ryan, Thelma J. “The 1st (U.S.) General Hospital, World War
II, 1942-1945.” (Compiled in binder by T. J. Ryan)
6.
Ryan, Thelma J. 1st General Hospital - photographs
7.
Ryan, Thelma J. Diploma case, Bellevue School of Nursing, 1927
8.
Ryan, Thelma J. Diplomas, certificates, and other personal papers,
1927-1965
9.
Ryan, Thelma J. Distinguished Alumna Award from Bellevue Alumnae
Association, 1992. (photographs)
10.
Ryan, Thelma J. Military documents, 1943-1945
11.
Ryan, Thelma J. Original newsclippings (copied and in original
locations; includes issues of Starch & Stripes)
12.
Ryan, Thelma J. Photographs
13.
World War I
SEE ALSO Series 3: Photographs
14.
World War II
SEE ALSO Class of 1929 album
dedicated to Blanche Sigman
15.
Yeakel, Catherine (1896). Letter about Mrs. Whitelane Reid and the
Spanish-American War.
16.
Original newsclippings
SEE ALSO Series 6, Artifact Box 1 - Bellevue Alumnae
members and Bellevue graduates in the Armed Forces – Compiled by Olive A. Eroh
[194?]
Sub-series 1: Edamay Bollenbach Bialko Papers,
1948
Box 1
Folder:
1.
Tuberculosis Theory notes, c. 1948
2.
Chest Surgery notes, c. 1948
3.
Psychiatry ward notes, c. 1948
4.
Handbook for Graduate Nurses, 1948
5.
Pediatrics notes, c. 1948
6.
Siphology and OPD notes, c. 1948
7.
Advanced Nursing notes, c. 1948
8.
Microbiology, Chemistry and Pathology notes, c. 1948
9.
Medical Disease and Medical Nursing notes, c. 1948
Box 2
Folder:
1.
Nursing Arts notes, c. 1948 (1 of 2)
2.
Nursing Arts notes, c. 1948 (2 of 2)
3.
Surgery and Operating Room notes, c. 1948
4.
Anatomy notes, c. 1948
5.
Anatomy Laboratory notes, c. 1948
6.
Pamphlets and publications, 1947, 1956, 1957, 1962, 1976, 1981, 1986,
undated
Box 3
Bellevue cape, c. 1948
Pin: “Bellevue Salutes it’s Nurses” (sic), 1982
Bookmark
Box 4: Books
1873-1923 Fiftieth Anniversary Bellevue Training
School for Nurses. 1923
The Alumnae Association of the Bellevue School of
Nursing. Jostens Printing and Publishing: Topeka, KS, 1989.
Bellevue: A short history of Bellevue Hospital and of
the Training School. The Alumnae Association of Bellevue Pension Fund
Committee: NY, 1915.
Brown, Jo Probie. Nightingale Press: Rutherford,
NJ, 1947.
Carlisle, Robert J. An Account of Bellevue Hospital.
The Society of the Alumni of Bellevue Hospital: NY, 1893. 1986 reprint.
The Crane 1928, 1931
Crane and Cross 1948, 1969
Cutolo, Salvatore. Bellevue is My Home.
Doubleday & Co.: Garden City, NY, 1956.
Cutolo, Salvatore. Bellevue is My Home. Perma
Books: NY, 1957. (paperback edition)
Leek, Sybil and Glen A. Hillan. Inside Bellevue.
Mason/Charter: NY, 1976.
My Oath: Fiftieth anniversary publication of the Mills
School of Nursing. Bellevue Hospital: New York, 1937.
Rubin, Theodore Isaac. Miracle at Bellevue.
MacMillan Publishing: New York, 1986.
Sub-series 2: Sonya Pawliw Papers and Memorabilia,
1965
Box 1
Folder:
Box 2
Artifacts and Books
Navy blue felt Bellevue School of Nursing pennant
Uniform with multiple aprons, cuffs and collars
Spare buttons
Brass Bellevue School of Nursing plaque mounted on wood
Bookmiller, Mae M. and George L. Bowen. Textbook of
Obstetric Nursing. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1963.
Brown, Amy Frances. Medical Nursing.
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1962.
Engeman, Jack. Student Nurse: Her Life in Pictures.
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1958.
de Gutierrez-Mahoney, C.G. and Esta Carini.
Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing. St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby
Company, 1960.
Rubin, Theodore Isaac. Miracle at Bellevue. New
York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1986.
1.
Announcement (information booklets about Bellevue and Mills Schools of
Nursing), 1931-1936
2.
Announcement (information booklets about Bellevue School of Nursing),
1915-1916, 1924-1927, 1929
3.
Announcement (information booklets about Bellevue School of Nursing),
1937-1941
4.
Brochures for Bellevue and Mills Schools of Nursing, 1944-1953
5.
Brochures for Bellevue and Mills Schools of Nursing, 1954-1956
Hospital newspapers: The
Bellevuer, 1962-1963 SEE Oversize Box 2, Folder 3
6.
Student Handbook (F. Fuch’s copy), ca. 1909
7.
Student Handbook, 1934 (with map), 1935 (Mills School), undated, + bound
volume with copies from the 1930s
8.
Student Handbook, 1952-1956
9.
Student Handbook, 1960-1965, undated
10.
Student newspapers: 4-Forty Winks, 1937 (3 issues)
11.
Student newspapers: Belle Views, 1945-46 (4 issues)
12.
Student newspapers: Starch and Stripes, 1955(?), 1963 SEE ALSO
Oversize Box 2, Folders 4-5 (issues from 1955-1966)
1.
1921 – Bellevue (2 copies)
2.
1922 – “September 1922” [class that graduated in1925]
3.
1927 – The Owl
4.
1928 – The Crane
5.
1929 – The Crane
6.
1930 – The Crane
7.
1931 – The Crane
8.
1932 – The Crane [damaged]
1.
1938 – Crane and Cross
2.
1939 – Crane and Cross
3.
1940 – Crane and Cross
4.
1941 – Crane and Cross
5.
1942 – Crane and Cross
6.
1943 – Crane and Cross
7.
1944 – Crane and Cross
Note: From 1938 onward, Bellevue yearbook includes Mills
School of Nursing
1.
1945 – Crane and Cross
2.
1946 – The Crane
3.
1947 – Crane and Cross
4.
1948 – The Crane – 75th Anniversary
5.
1949 – Crane and Cross
6.
1950 – Crane and Cross
1.
1951 – Crane and Cross
2.
1952 – Crane and Cross
3.
1953 – Crane and Cross
4.
1954 – Crane and Cross
5.
1955 – Crane and Cross
1.
1956 – Crane and Cross
2.
1957 – Crane and Cross
3.
1958 – Crane and Cross
4.
1959 – Crane and Cross
5.
1960 – Crane and Cross
1.
1961
2.
1962
3.
1963
4.
1964
5.
1965
6.
1966
7.
1967
8.
1968
9.
1969
10.
Mills 1931 – M.T.S. Annual
11.
Mills 1937 – “My Oath”
Textile Box 1 (stripes
are originals, but aprons are probably facsimiles)
1873 outfit typical of that worn
1875 black mourning dress
1875 grey calico (summer “uniform”)
1890 Bellevue stripes (leg-o-mutton sleeves)
1900’s Bellevue stripes
Textile Box 2
(facsimiles)
1875 blue calico (check)
1880s – early 90’s Bellevue stripes
1890 Bellevue stripes (leg-o-mutton sleeves)
Turn-of-the-century Bellevue stripes
1900-early ‘20s Bellevue stripes
Textile Box 3
(originals)
Pkg. #1
1920’s (Helen Wago’s)
Pink probie
Public Health
White graduation
Pkg. #2
Student stripes 1930s-1950s
“Dress” stripes with long
sleeves 1930s to early 1940s
Last student uniform 1959-69
Textile Box 4
World War I Nurse Corps: complete uniform with hat,
overcoat, and high-button shoes
Textile Box 5
World War II Army Nurse Corps: compete uniform with hat,
bag, shoes, boots & cape
Cadet Nurse Corps: summer uniform and winter bag
Navy Nurse Corps: complete uniform with hat
Textile Box 6
Bellevue School of Nursing blue wool cape
Mills “dress” uniforms: early 20th century;
last student uniform
1.
Bandaging class, 1920s
2.
Bellevue Hospital 1873-early 1900s (incl. Alms House 1736)
3.
Bellevue Hospital ca. 1919
4.
Bellevue Hospital ca. 1920
5.
Bellevue Hospital ca. 1920
6.
Bellevue Hospital 1930s – 1975(?)
7.
Bellevue Hospital ca. 1960(?) [photos by Marilyn Mitchell]
8.
Bellevue Hospital – Building and Interiors 1975
9.
Bellevue Hospital – Building and Interiors 1975
10.
Bellevue Hospital – Building and Interiors 1975
11.
Bellevue Hospital staff 1930s
12.
Bellevue School for Midwives
13.
Bellevue School for Midwives (incl. photocopies)
14.
Cap and pin
15.
Class photograph 1921 (damaged)
16.
Class photographs 1893, 1903, 1918, 1922, 1926, 1927, undated
Class photographs SEE ALSO
Oversize Box 1, Folders 4 and 5
17.
Dental clinic, with Elizabeth Conrad 1913
18.
Dock, Lavinia L. with group at Atlantic City ICN May 13, 1947
19.
Individuals (in uniform) 1875-1900s
20.
Individuals (in uniform) 1900s
21.
Individuals (in uniform) 1900s
Individuals (in uniform) SEE
ALSO poster from “Sentimental Women Need Not Apply” in Oversize Box 2
22.
Individuals (no uniform) 1879, 1889
1.
Lee, Lucille – various photos and slides of students, undated
2.
Lister, Jeanie H. (1924) - Pages from photo album
3.
Mills School for Men
4.
Nurses Residence 1877-1954
5.
Nurses Residence 1954-1969
6.
Nurses Residence 1954-1969
7.
Nurses Residence 1954-1969 (includes uniform images)
8.
Public health nurses, 1880s or 1890s
9.
Student life 1900-1930s
10.
Student life 1950s-1960s
11.
Student life 1950s-1960s
12.
Uniform pageants
13.
World War I
SEE ALSO Oversize Box 2, Folder
6
14.
World War II –1st General Hospital
SEE ALSO panoramic photograph of
1st General Hospital Unit, on shelf
15.
World War II –1st General Hospital, Florence Hosenfeld album
16.
Copies and copy negatives of selected photographs
1.
Bellevue Alumnae Association Annual Report, 1899-1910
2.
Board of Managers Annual Report, 1959-1962
3.
Board of Managers Annual Report, 1963-1968
Board of Managers Annual Report, bound copies:
1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
Bellevue
Alumnae Association. Alumnae Association Annual Reports: 1899-1909.
New York. (See Series 4, Folder 1)
Bellevue
Alumnae Association. Bellevue School of Nursing: Roster of Graduates.
New York: , 1938.
Bellevue
Alumnae Association. Bellevue Training School, 50th Anniversary for Nurses
1873-1923. New York. (2 copies)
Bellevue
Alumnae Association. Centennial Booklet. New York, 1989.
Bellevue
Alumnae Association. A Short History of Bellevue Hospital and Training
School. New York: 1915.
Century
Illustrated Monthly Magazine. London: F. Warne & Co., Nov. 1882, Apr.
1883.
Cooper, Page.
The Bellevue Story. New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1948.
(A2004-44)
Cutolo,
Salvatore. Bellevue is My Home. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.
Engeman,
Jack. Student Nurse. New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1958.
Seventh printing, June, 1967.
Felter, Robert
K. and West, Frances. Surgical Nursing. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis
Company, 1938.
Giles,
Dorothy. A Candle in Her Hand. New York: Putnam, 1949.
Gold, Don.
Bellevue: A Documentary of a Large Metropolitan Hospital. New York:
Harper & Row, 1975.
Hobson,
Elizabeth Christophers. Recollections of a Happy Life. New York: G.P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1916.
Keaney,
George. Bellevue: A Series of Articles. : , 1945. Reprinted from the
New York World Telegram.
Maynard,
Lorraine. Bellevue. New York: Julian Messner, 1940.
Starr, John.
Hospital City. New York: Crown, 1957. (2 copies)
Tjomsland,
Anne. Bellevue in France, Anecdotal History of Base Hospital #1. New
York: Froben Press, 1941.
Crane and Cross, 1942 (duplicate copy)
A Manual
for Nursing. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1878. Compiled/developed under the
aegis of the Board of Managers of the Training School for Nurses Attached to
Bellevue Hospital. [2 copies??]
Bradshaw,
Marjorie. The Doll House: Story of the Chase Doll. 1988.
Connecticut
Training School. Handbook of Nursing. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott,
1884.
Division of
Nursing, Department of Hospitals. Standard Nursing Procedures. New
York: Macmillan, 1943.
Dock, Lavinia.
Materia Medica for Nurses. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1892.
Dock, Lavinia.
Materia Medica for Nurses. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1894. [Belonged
to Theresa Cox 1885.]
Dock, Lavinia
L. and Isabel Maitland Stewart. A Short History of Nursing. New York:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931. In Korean: Korean edition printed at the Chang Mon
Sa, Seoul, Korea, 1933.
Fullerton, Anna M. Surgical Nursing. Philadelphia:
P. Blakiston’s Son, 1899.
Hill, Dorothy
Dix. Textbook of Nursing Procedures, Bellevue School of Nursing. New
York, Macmillan, 1923. [1921 graduate; based on Carrie Brink’s procedures.]
Hobson,
Elizabeth Cristophers. Recollections of a Happy Life. New York: G.P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1916. (With an introduction by Louisa Lee Schuyler.)
Keen, [William
W.]. Gray's Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical.. 1887. 11th edition.
[Title page missing; appears to have belonged to Carrie J. Brink]
Kimber, Diana
Clifford. Text-book of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses. New York:
Macmillan, 1897. [Inscribed by author to Estelle M. Valentine, 1888 graduate.]
A Manual of
Nursing prepared for the Training School for Nurses, attached to Bellevue
Hospital. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, undated Putnam’s Handy Book
Series of Things Worth Knowing, No. XVII. NOTE: title page missing, but
author probably Victoria White, M.D. and revised by Mary Putnam Jacobi, MD.
McIsaac,
Isabel. Primary Nursing Techniques. New York: Macmillan, 1908.
Morrissey,
Alice B. Rehabilitation Nursing. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951.
Nutting, M.
Adelaide and Lavinia L. Dock. A History of Nursing. Berlin: Rermer &
Vohsen, 1911. German edition
Pfefferkorn,
Blanche and Marian Rottman. Clinical Education in Nursing. New York:
Macmillan & Co., 1932.
Richards,
Linda. Reminiscences of Linda Richards. Boston: Barrow, 1929.
Rice, Edith
M. 2 booklets originally belonging to Miss Lillian Frankenheim (1906). [Donated
by Margaret Taylor Ritchie, Class of 1946.]
“If I Forget”. New York:
Lakeside Publishing, 1910.
Solutions. New York: Lakeside Publishing, 1909.
Robb, Isabel
Hampton. Nursing: Its Principles and Practice. Cleveland: E.C. Koeckert,
1907. 3rd Edition. NOTE: covered in yellowing, sticky plastic
cover.
Roberts, Mary M. American Nursing, History and
Interpretation. New York, Macmillan, 1954.
Weeks, Clara
S. Text Book of Nursing. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1886.
Weeks, Clara
S. Text Book of Nursing. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1885. [Annie
Damer’s copy)
West,
[Charles]. How to Nurse Sick Children. New York: Samuel S. & William
Wood, 1855.
Wright, Muriel
H. Springplace Moravian Mission and the Ward Family. From the Genealogical
notes of Miss Clara A. Ward and Other Sources. Guthrie, OK: Co-operative
Publishing Co., 1940. [1887 graduate]
SEE ALSO Oversize Box 1
On desk in lobby:
Bell
Lantern
In library:
Dolls
Box 1
2 nurses kits: Mary B. Rappaport, Class of 1922 and Ivy
Cunningham
1944 Nursing
pin
Anna Turner box and medals
Architect’s drawing of hospital
Arline Lauffenberger’s pin, Class of 1931
Bellevue
Alumnae members and Bellevue graduates in the Armed Forces – Notebook compiled
by Olive A. Eroh [194?]
Belva M. Gardiner’s pin and ring, Class of 1936, Pi Lambda Theta pin (in orginial box) dated 1948,
Monogram pin (obverse) inscribed "A.M.C.S.N. Faculty, 1974" (on her retirement) [Slingerland, A2008-15]
Framed Class
of 1876 photograph
Gavel,
Bellevue Alumnae Association. Reported to be made of wood from Mount
Vernon.
Medallion
(paperweight?—1973) and ashtray (1948) with Bellevue seal [Hamje A2002-32]
One student pin originally belonging to Anna L. Harkness,
1902 [Candler A2003-33]
One badge from the 1947 Congress of the International
Council of Nurses
3 caps
WWI Victory Medal given to Naomi W. Abbott, Class of 1917
Key chain in black box, souvenir of 50th
annual alumnae day, 2006
Box 2
Class of 1929 album dedicated to Blanche Sigman
Box 3
Class notebooks and text book owned by John B. Shepard,
1903
Box 4
Letter from Florence Nightingale to Dr. Wylie in metal and glass frame,
1872
Box 5
A2000-10
Lightbourne, Helene memorabilia: graduate pin and pillow with embroidered
image of Bellevue cap, undated
Oversize Box 1
Artifact
Needlepoint Bellevue seal, by Marjorie P. Doyle, Class of
December, 1946
Folder 1
Series 1: Certificates, Abbot –
Lowry
Abbot, Naomi W. (Naomi Harris)
1917
SEE ALSO Series 1, Box 1; Series 6, Box 1
Allen, Ethel. Registered Nurse
certificate 1924
Atkinson, Florence B. Nursing
diploma, 1912.
Howitt, Helen. 1923
Joyce, Julia. 1915
SEE ALSO Series 1 Box 1
Lowry, Margaret. 1918
Folder 2
Series 1: Certificates, Shepard
– Woodworth
Shepard, John
Benjamin 1903
Smith, Jennye Springer
Grammar school 1905
Nursing license 1924
1924
Speight, Mary. 1903
Woodworth, Margaret.
New York Training School for
Nurses 1886
Registered Nurse
certificate 1909
SEE ALSO Series 1, Box 1
Folder 3
Series 3:
Bellevue Alumnae Association Events 1912, 1923, 1932, 1948, 1952, 1973
Folder 4
Series 3:
Class photographs 1895 (damaged), 1903, 1913, 1918, 1920, 1924, undated (1912?)
Folder 5
Series 3:
Class photograph 1925 (damaged); Hospital staff, undated
Folder 6
Series 6:
Newsprint
Oversize Box 2
Folder 1
Series 1: Dock, Lavinia.
Registration Certificate, 1904. (damaged)
Folder 2
Series 1: Hamje, Dorothy –
Newsclippings about Bellevue Hospital
Series 1: Floyd, Mary
Fredericks – Framed photograph of the Class of 1934
Folder 3
Series 2: Hospital newspapers – The Bellevuer,
1962-1963
Folder 4
Series 1: Shepard, John B. Photographs,
1902-c. 1910
Folder 5
Series 2: School newspapers –
Starch & Stripes 1955-1957
Folder 6
Series 2: School newspapers –
Starch & Stripes 1958-1961
Folder 7
Series 2: School newspapers –
Starch & Stripes 1961-1966
Folder 8
Series 3: World War I,
Bellevue Hospital Unit
Series 6: Poster for film “Sentimental Women Need Not
Apply”
Poster for Bellevue Hospital’s 250th
Anniversary celebration (3 copies)
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Last revised: March 20, 2008
