School of Nursing of the Jefferson Medical Hospital

This collection consists of student notes and case studies from Elaine Keiser Carroll's time as a student in Jefferson's Training School for Nurses. The notes are handwritten and occasionally include article reprints, magazine cut-outs, and medical brochures.

8 page typewritten memoir of Chromis' attendance at the Jefferson Training School for Nurses in the early 1920's. Also included is a snapshot of nurses on the porch outside the Children's Ward on the roof of Jefferson Medical College Hospital, ca. 1920.

31-page typed ms., in three installments, describing Mrs. Eppley's three years of training at Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing, 1955-1958.

Application of Mary S. Longacre for admission to the Jefferson Hospital Training School for Nurses, ca. 1915; corespondence 1920, 1930, concerning professional reference and membership; membership cards to various nursing organizations, 1924-1937; and pages from a photo album showing nurses, doctors and children, n.d. Includes clipping of Mar. 20, 1919 concerning Jefferson Hospital nurses returning from war service at Camp 38 in Europe.

Letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, mimeographed teaching materials and other papers related to Stemler's training at the Jefferson Hospital School of Nursing and to general activities at the hospital, 1947-1950. The collection also includes Stemler's Obstetrical Nursing Care Study (1950) and several printed menus for patients at Jefferson Hospital (1948).

Newspaper clippings, photographs, letters and other papers related to Mrs. Richards' nursing career. The collection also includes a clipping and announcement on the death of W. Parker Runyon at Jefferson Hospital, 1928. Many of the photographs appear to have been made by Dr. Clerf.