The collection contains photographs, primarily of nurses and nursing students and their graduation, likely at Rhode Island Hospital. The collection also includes family members of the unidentified woman who these images once belonged, as well as beach scenes, and Rhode Island Hospital’s out patient department, tennis court, and pond. Other photographs likely include the exterior of Crawford Allen Memorial Hospital (where the woman who originally owned these photographs worked) and patients there. People identified in the photographs include Marion Chandler, Tommy Simpson, Mildred Chandler, Myrta Schurman, Catherine Morissey, Agnes Lacey, Mary Finnigan, Clarence Nelson, Peg Harrington, and Alena Dunbar.
Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
The collection is open for research.
Unidentified nurse’s photographs, MSS-0057, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
The collection is arranged in no discernible order.
The collection was purchased in June 2004 and then donated to Rhode Island College Special Collections in November 2005 by Rick Statler.
The collection was described by Veronica L. Denison, Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, in 2024. This collection was donated with
The photographs were given to Riverside Antiques prior to June 2004.
These photographs were separated from
Collection materials have not been digitized and are not available online.