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The baby Rustam in swaddling clothes is suckled by one of his ten wet nurses.

The baby Rustam in swaddling clothes is suckled by one of his ten wet ...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, classical or archaic, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The state nurses. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

The state nurses. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British ...

Print shows the Earl of Mansfield, seated, and the Earl of Sandwich keeping watch over the British lion asleep in a cradle around which are four barking dogs labeled "Holland", "America" who is urinating on a p... More

Helen L. Gilson - Public domain portrait print

Helen L. Gilson - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows reproduction of portrait print of Helen L. Gilson, also known as Helen Louise Gilson Osgood, who was a Union nurse in the Civil War. In album: Portraits of the Barton, Bigelow, Bullard, Buswel... More

Miss Clara Barton. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathew Brady.

Miss Clara Barton. Female portrait of American Civil War time by Mathe...

Original Caption: Miss Clara Barton..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-1857..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)..Photographer: B... More

Civil War envelope showing woman nursing soldier with message "Lovely woman. We will take care of the brave soldiers who have fought our battles"

Civil War envelope showing woman nursing soldier with message "Lovely ...

Addressed to Mrs. F. Behymer, Shelbyville, Illinois ; postmarked Richmond, Kentucky ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Amberman Postal History, Clifton Park, New York,... More

Civil War envelope showing soldier standing in front of American flag, tents, and U.S. Capitol with message "United, we stand; divided, we fail"

Civil War envelope showing soldier standing in front of American flag,...

Addressed to Arthur E. Whitney, care S.D. Whitney, Pittsfield, Lorain Co., Ohio ; postmarked Cleveland, Ohio, June 1862 ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Amberman Pos... More

Nurse Mary A.E. Keen of Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake Hospital, Fort Monroe, Virginia

Nurse Mary A.E. Keen of Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Chesa...

Photograph shows identified Army nurse who worked from 1861 to 1865 under the jurisdiction of Dorothea Dix and later married Milton Woodworth. Notation in case behind photograph: "Mary A.E. Keen at about 27 ye... More

Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. The letter for home / H.

Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. The letter for home / H.

Print shows a nurse writing a letter for a wounded Army of the Potomac soldier in a hospital bed. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:089.03).

Advantage of "famine prices" - Public domain portrait engraving

Advantage of "famine prices" - Public domain portrait engraving

Cartoon showing a nurse about to give some quinine to a sickly boy who tells her that he wishes he was in Dixie because the cost of quinine is so high there that it would be unlikely she would waste it on him.

Carrie Wilkins Pollard, Civil War nurse

Carrie Wilkins Pollard, Civil War nurse

Photograph shows identified nurse who served at U.S. field hospitals in Louisville, Kentucky, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and the Floating Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Case: Rinhart, no. 175. Pension rec... More

Susie King Taylor, known as the first African American Army nurse

Susie King Taylor, known as the first African American Army nurse

Photograph shows portrait of Susie King Taylor, who served more than three years as nurse with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, although officially enrolled as a lau... More

Emergency medical directory showing leading physicians, dental surgeons and trained nurses of Washington, D.C., compliments of The Fountain Pharmacy, Gray & Gray, proprietors ..

Emergency medical directory showing leading physicians, dental surgeon...

Promotional leaflet issued by Fountain Pharmacy (Washington, D.C.) with listings of local African American physicians and nurses. The front page shows a group portrait of the proprietors: Amanda V. Gray, Doctor... More

[Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.]

[Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sun parlor in tubercular hospital

Sun parlor in tubercular hospital

Photograph shows hospital ward with soldiers lying in beds; in background a nurse and possibly a doctor are seen.

Emmeline Pankhurst with Nurse Pine, c.1913.

Emmeline Pankhurst with Nurse Pine, c.1913.

7JCC/O/02/092Photograph, modern reproduction, printed, paper, monochrome, Emmeline Pankhurst in bed, Catherine Pine in the background; manuscript inscription on reverse 'Mrs Pankhurst and Nurse Pyne [sic]'

Ceremonies - Michigan thru New Jersey - Red Cross parade, Jersey City, New Jersey, May 19. 1918. Photo shows contingent of nurses of the Jersey City Chapter marching up Bergen avenue

Ceremonies - Michigan thru New Jersey - Red Cross parade, Jersey City,...

Date Taken: 5/19/1918. - Photographer: Rec'd from Adolph A. Langer, Jersey City, N.J. Ceremonies - Michigan thru New Jersey

Ceremonies - Illinois thru Massachusetts - Red Cross parade to stimulate interest in drive for War nurses, Chicago, Ill. Marching on State Street, Chicago, Ill

Ceremonies - Illinois thru Massachusetts - Red Cross parade to stimula...

Photographer: David Beehler Ceremonies - Illinois thru Massachusetts Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Red Cross - Groups - Manchester girls who have volunteered for duty as Red Cross nurses

American Red Cross - Groups - Manchester girls who have volunteered fo...

Photographer: American Red Cross American Red Cross - Groups Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poster, 'Victory Bonds' - A vintage poster of a man swimming in the ocean

Poster, 'Victory Bonds' - A vintage poster of a man swimming in the oc...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laying of the corner of the Nurses' Memorial, Bldg., Florence Nightingale School, Bordeaux, France. Miss Helen Scott Hay, Director of ARC Nursing Service in Europe, laid the first mortar on the stone, with a special trowel, acting in the behalf of the nurses of America who had raised the $50,000. fund for the Memorial, in honor of their American sister nurses who died in the line of duty during the World War

Laying of the corner of the Nurses' Memorial, Bldg., Florence Nighting...

Laying of corner stone Florence Nightingale School, Bordeaux. Miss Helen Scott Hays reads the speech of Miss Clara D. Noyes, chairman of the joint committee of the three national nursing associations through wh... More

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions.  Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manch...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4997. Single card covers 4966-5008. No state or city recorded on caption card; South Manchester, Connecti... More

Poster, 'Volunteer For National Service'

Poster, 'Volunteer For National Service'

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nurse training. A graduate nurse (right) watches student Susan Petty prepare a hypodermic for a patient. Strict adherence to doctors' orders is something every probationer must learn

Nurse training. A graduate nurse (right) watches student Susan Petty p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is as important to this worker as inspection of parachutes that will carry "live cargo." Location: an Eastern parachute plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is as important to this worker as inspection of parachutes that will carry "live cargo." Location: an Eastern parachute plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a gas mask drill of the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed as to past history and work qualifications, Mabel Goodwin has a physical examination at the Bell Aircraft plant. A nurse records her height and weight. She is forty-five, worked in a factory in the last war, and has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen

Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed as to past history and work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Eleanor Roosevelt Chatting with Injured Naval Man

Eleanor Roosevelt Chatting with Injured Naval Man

This photograph depicts Eleanor Roosevelt chatting with Private First Class Robert Kiernam and Private First Class Robert Coles, who were joking about their injuries. Publicity Interviews

Nurse Grace Kyler working with polio victims at the FAMU Hospital in Tallahassee, Florida

Nurse Grace Kyler working with polio victims at the FAMU Hospital in T...

: 259859 ( http://259859 ) ..Local call number: TD00035..Title: Nurse Grace Kyler working with polio victims at the FAMU Hospital in Tallahassee, Florida..Date: September 13, 1953..Physical descrip: 1 photonega... More

Public Domain Stock Photo . War memorial window, religion.

Public Domain Stock Photo . War memorial window, religion.

Beautiful World Pictures: Free images of the world, available for commercial use and free download. Copyright-free, no attribution required.

Capt. Rachael Wheeler, a nurse practitioner at the

Capt. Rachael Wheeler, a nurse practitioner at the

Capt. Rachael Wheeler, a nurse practitioner at the 179th Airlift Wing in Mansfield, Ohio poses for a portrait on February 10th, 2019. Capt. Wheeler uses her skills to help keep members ready to serve. (U.S. Air... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Cook, James H.; 2 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Biographical papers
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Supply lists and disbursements
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Pensions; Soldiers
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Memoir, incomplete draft
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Clark, Anna R
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Hiram
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Mary K
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Cyrus and Lizzie
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Miscellany; 1 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Florence
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Newspaper clippings; 1 of 2

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Newspaper clippings; 1 of 2

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Merritt, Christiana
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; Undated
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Miscellany; 2 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Western College, Macon, Mo
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Olive
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Clark, Ella
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Special correspondence
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, 1899-1900
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Aaron T
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, James; To Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Jane
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Printed matter; 1855, 1865-1899
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1859
Jean Margaret Davenport Lander, actress and Civil War nurse Whipple, 96 Washington Street, Boston

Jean Margaret Davenport Lander, actress and Civil War nurse Whipple, 9...

Beginning date based on year of her marriage; end date based on last year Whipple based at this address. Notation on recto: "Jean M. Lander to her friend Mrs. Chandler of Mich." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018;... More

Sybil Jones, Quaker missionary who nursed Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

Sybil Jones, Quaker missionary who nursed Union soldiers and Confedera...

Printed on verso: "Sybil Jones, Maine, U.S.A." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collec... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Pond, Mrs. Charles M., Jr
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Wainright, Mary E
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Cochran, Asenath
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, James; General
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, C. C
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Printed matter; Undated
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Mary E
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Financial papers; Miscellaneous
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Newspaper clippings; 2 of 2

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Newspaper clippings; 2 of 2

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Helen L. Gilson, Civil War nurse and head of the Colored Hospital Service, half length portrait, seated J.C. Moulton, Fitchburg

Helen L. Gilson, Civil War nurse and head of the Colored Hospital Serv...

Photograph shows portrait of Helen Louise Gilson, also known as Helen Louise Gilson Osgood, who cared for wounded and dying soldiers at battles including Yorktown, Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancell... More

Civil War nurse partially identified as Miss Davis of South Street Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in traditional nurse's uniform Photographed by Keely, N.W. cor. Fifth and Coates Sts., Philadelphia

Civil War nurse partially identified as Miss Davis of South Street Hos...

Tax stamp on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photograph... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Woodcock, Eliza
Portrait photo of Union nurse Major Belle Reynolds

Portrait photo of Union nurse Major Belle Reynolds

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper pp/liljwoch

Mary Morris Husband, Civil War nurse in Philadelphia, at field hospitals, and on hospital transports J.W. Hurn, No. 1319 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Mary Morris Husband, Civil War nurse in Philadelphia, at field hospita...

Photograph shows portrait of identified nurse who worked at military hospitals in Philadelphia; field hospitals including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Port Royal; and hospital transports to Baltimore, Anti... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Chicago Home for the Friendless, Chicago, Ill
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, James; From Hiram Bickerdyke (brother)
Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Civil War relief worker, U.S. Sanitary Commission nurse, and hospital director J.W. Black, Washington St., Boston

Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Civil War relief worker, U.S. Sanitary Co...

Photograph shows identified relief worker who worked at the Newport Ladies' Aid Society and nurse who worked on hospital transport ships in the Peninsular Campaign and as director of Lovell Hospital, Portsmouth... More

Union nurse Helen Louise Gilson Black & Case, Boston & Newport, R.I

Union nurse Helen Louise Gilson Black & Case, Boston & Newport, R.I

Photograph shows portrait of nurse Helen Louise Gilson, also known as Helen Louise Gilson Osgood. Notation on verso: "With the pleasantest recollections of the Jaffrey Institute, I am Yr. Friend, Helen Louise ... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, W. W
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Financial papers; Cook, James H
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Robert
Harriet E. Preston Grogan, U.S. Army Medical Department nurse of Chesapeake Hospital, Hampton, Virginia

Harriet E. Preston Grogan, U.S. Army Medical Department nurse of Chesa...

Notation on verso: "H.E. Preston." Tax stamp on verso. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist Famil... More

Almira Fales, philanthropist and nurse during the Civil War Whitehurst Gallery, 434 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. ; W. Snell, photographer & partner

Almira Fales, philanthropist and nurse during the Civil War Whitehurst...

Photograph shows identified Civil War nurse holding baskets of supplies. Photographer is possibly William Snell who worked in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, form... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Hutchinson, Ruth
Grace Babcock, Civil War nurse, sitting atop Lookout Mountain From Thomas J. Merritt's Photograph Galleries, 42 & 44 Union St., Nashville, Tenn

Grace Babcock, Civil War nurse, sitting atop Lookout Mountain From Tho...

Photograph shows identified nurse who may have worked with U.S. Sanitary Commission or U.S. General Hospital in Chattanooga. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collec... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Clark, George W
Eleanor C. Ransom, Civil War nurse, with Union soldier who is showing her a bugle

Eleanor C. Ransom, Civil War nurse, with Union soldier who is showing ...

Photograph shows portrait of identified nurse, also known as "Mother," who worked in a Union hospital in Tennessee and aboard the transport ship "North America." Stencilled on verso: "Mrs. Ransom, the soldiers... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Joseph
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Charles R
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Unidentified, and other family correspondents
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Elizabeth
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Cook, James H.; 1 of 2
Maria M.C. Hall, Civil War nurse at Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland Brady, New York ; Brady's National Photographic Galleries, Broadway & Tenth Street, New York & No. 352 Pennsylvania Av., Washington D.C

Maria M.C. Hall, Civil War nurse at Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Ma...

Photograph shows identified nurse who worked at the Patent Office Hospital, Washington, D.C.; Daniel Webster hospital ship in the Peninsular Campaign; Smoketown Hospital, Antietam; and General Hospital #1, Anna... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, J. P. W. A
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Elizabeth E
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Photographs
Elida Rumsey Fowle, Civil War nurse and singer

Elida Rumsey Fowle, Civil War nurse and singer

Printed on recto: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by M.S. Hagaman, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1863
U.S. Sanitary Commission convalescent camp relief station, Alexandria, Virginia, with nurse Amy M. Bradley standing in the doorway

U.S. Sanitary Commission convalescent camp relief station, Alexandria,...

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Chris Foard, The Foard Collection of Civil War Nursing, July 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congr... More

Mary Jewett Telford, Civil War nurse at Hospital No. 8, Nashville, Tennessee

Mary Jewett Telford, Civil War nurse at Hospital No. 8, Nashville, Ten...

Photograph shows portrait of identified nurse who was later a charter member of the Woman's Relief Corps. Notation on recto: "Soldier's friend" Notation on verso: "Miss Mary Jewett, Hospital No. 8, Nashville, ... More

Anna Maria Ross, Civil War nurse and Lady Principal at Cooper Shop Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anna Maria Ross, Civil War nurse and Lady Principal at Cooper Shop Hos...

Tax stamp on verso. Printed on recto: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by M.S. Hagaman, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Deposit; T... More

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