Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry - Collections


Photographic Collections

Historical photographs comprise an important part of the Center’s holdings, and are housed in our own archival collections rather than at the Health Sciences Library. Presently the largest collections are photographs of University of Virginia nursing students from 1903 to the present, making up the University of Virginia School of Nursing and Nursing Alumni Association Collections. Nursing students’ classroom and clinical experiences, social life, and educational rites of passage are depicted in images that capture the many changes, as well as the continuing traditions, of twentieth century nursing education.

The Barbara Brodie Collection includes many early nursing photographs, especially representing pediatric nursing and nursing education. Important clinical and educational nursing photographs from the 1920s are included in the Washington D.C. Columbia Hospital collection. A group of photos donated by the Charlottesville-Albemarle Public Health Department and by nurse Imogene Bunn represent community health work in Virginia. The Stella Prombo Renaud collection depicts 1928-29 nursing education at St. Charles Hospital in Illinois. A Winchester, Virginia nursing student of the same era, Grace Ethel Lineberry Henderson, kept a photo scrapbook of her experiences.

All photographs are copyrighted by the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, University of Virginia School of Nursing.  Images from the CNHI website are available for use in educational lectures and presentations at no charge.  For any other use, please contact the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry for permission and specific wording of the credit citation you will be required to use.  All images reproduced in any medium require the written permission of the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.  Use fees and conditions apply.

Photo Collections- Examples (Click on thumbnails to enlarge)

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Manuscript Collections

Organizations

Alzheimer’s Association of Lane County, Oregon, 1980-1983 (0.5 linear feet)
Association of State & Territorial Directors of Nursing, 1990-1996 (1.5 linear feet)
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners (NAPNAP), 1973-1994 (30 linear feet)
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, (NONPF), 1980s (3.0 linear feet)
National Certification Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners & Nurses (NCBPNP), 1970s-1991(5.0 linear feet)

Individuals

Albrecht, Lorraine Bowers, 1948-1951 (1.0 linear feet)
Applebee, Jacoba Greenway Prins, 1934-1994 (1 folder)
Bacon, Evelyn Crary, 1944-1990 (1.5 linear feet)
Barry, Eliza Wray, 1939 (1 folder)
Booth, Alice Burford, 1940-1967 (1.0 linear feet)
Burgess, May Ayers, 1934 (1 folder)
Chioni, Rose, 1950-1993 (1.5 linear feet)
Clark, Myra, 1940-1943 (0.3 linear feet)
Crawford, Annie Laurie, 1930-1984 (1.0 linear feet)
DiGiulian, Sophie Sander, 1922-1948 (1 folder)
Habel, Mary Louise, 1922-1953 (0.6 linear feet)
Hammond, Kathryn, 1942-1953 (1 folder)
Hay, L. Jeffers, 1914-1918 (1 folder)
Henderson, Grace Ethel Lineberry, 1920-1923 (0.6 linear feet)
Hunter, Kathryn Holsclaw, 1944-1945 (0.3 linear feet)
Jacquette, Kathryn, 1971-1974 (1.5 linear feet)
Jones, Louise Paris, 1940s-1980s (2.5 linear feet)
Keller, Caroline, 1922-1984 (0.6 linear feet)
Luster, Sarah, 1948-1984 (1 folder)
McGhee, Eula Stith, 1898-1948 (0.3 linear feet)
Nuckles, Gloria Rhinesmith, 1950-1954 (0.6 linear feet)
Pinneo, Rose, 1950s-1960s (2.0 linear feet)
Robinson, Nancy, 1947 (0.3 linear feet)
Shaver, Ruth Repass, 1939-1973 (0.4 linear feet)
Smith, Alice, 1936-1988 (0.6 linear feet)
Vaden, Fay Thomas, 1928-1996 (1.0 linear feet)
Wesley, Mildred, 1929 (1 folder)
Yura, Helen, 1950-1989 (0.3 linear feet)

The Center also has a growing collection of historical nursing texts and nursing school yearbooks. New manuscript collections and individual items are frequently added to our holdings. For more complete information, contact the Center Archivist.

Highlighted Collections

For a brief description of the following collections, visit the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library Historical Collections site.

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