Descriptive Summary
Repository: University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Title: Alice Constance Burford Booth Papers
Physical Characteristics: 2.5 linear feet; 4 boxes
Language: English
Collector: Patricia (Booth) Woodard.
Biographical Information
Alice Constance (Burford) Booth (1920-2004), of Amherst, Virginia, completed high school in Nottoway County at the Blackstone College for Girls in 1940. She enrolled in the Medical College of Virginia (M.C.V.) School of Nursing diploma program, completing this in 1943, and over the next academic year earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at M.C.V., where she was also employed as head nurse of the hospital psychiatric unit. Booth subsequently undertook graduate work in New York City at the Payne-Whitney Clinic, Hunter College, and the Columbia University Teachers College. In 1945, she joined the faculty of M.C.V. as a clinical instructor in psychiatric nursing, advancing to assistant and associate professor before turning to private life at the end of the decade. In the mid-1960s, Booth resumed her career at M.C.V., and served as an instructor of psychiatric nursing for the associate degree program. When the Nursing School terminated the program in 1967, Booth transferred to the Student Health Service, where she remained until her retirement in 1982.
Scope and Content
Alice Burford Booth, R.N., was a member of the faculty at the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, and a specialist in psychiatric nursing. Her papers, presented to the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry by her daughter, Patricia B. Woodard, R.N., include a variety of materials important to understanding mid-twentieth-century developments in the fields of mental health and mental health nursing, as well as strategies of nursing education. Booth assembled reference materials and notes concerning the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, as well as course outlines, examinations and assignments in the mid-1940s and again in the mid-1960s, when she returned to teaching after a hiatus to raise her family. Booth also collected a number of published documents relative to mental health, and also concerning contraception and other medical issues, nursing education and accreditation, and informational materials on the region's major public psychiatric institutions. Course notes, examinations, and assignments by Booth herself, as a diploma student at the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing in the early 1940s -- and later as a graduate student at the Payne-Whitney Clinic, Hunter College, and the Columbia University Teachers College -- offer views of general nursing education and certain psychiatric treatment modalities, such as pre-frontal lobotomy, electroshock therapy, and music therapy.
Alice Booth kept handwritten index cards on various mental illnesses and therapies, such as this one on electroshock treatment.
Series Description
Arrangement
The Booth Papers are organized in three manuscript boxes by general chronological period and subject. Box 01 contains items relative to Booth's education and initial faculty position at the Medical College of Virginia (M.C.V.). Box 02 contains items relative to Booth's instructorship with the M.C.V. Associate Degree Program, arranged by category. Box 03 contains published documents, pamphlets and reprints. Booth's nursing uniform -- along with a photograph of her in uniform -- are contained in Box 04, which is shelved with other uniform donations.
Contents List
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, PRE-CLINICAL CLASS SCHEDULE, ACADEMIC YEAR 1940-41
1940-41 Box-Folder: 01-001
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, PRE-CLINICAL CLASS NOTES AND EXAMS FOR ANATOMY, CHEMISTRY, AND HISTORY OF NURSING
1940-41 Box-Folder: 01-002
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, PRE-CLINICAL CLASS NOTES AND EXAMS FOR MICROBIOLOGY (BACTERIOLOGY), NURSING ARTS, AND PHARMACOLOGY
1940-41 Box-Folder: 01-003
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, PRE-CLINICAL CLASS NOTES AND EXAMS FOR PHYSIOLOGY, PROFESSIONAL ADJUSTMENTS, AND PSYCHOLOGY
1940-41 Box-Folder: 01-004
EMERGENCY NURSING CLASS EXAM
ca. 1941-43 Box-Folder: 01-005
PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, CLASS NOTES AND EXAMS
1942, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-006
COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE, PSYCHIATRIC NURSING CLASS NOTES
1943 SPRING Box-Folder: 01-007
NOTES CONCERNING ALCOHOLISM, BRAIN TRAUMA, PRE-FRONTAL LOBOTOMY
1943, 1944, ca. 1944 Box-Folder: 01-008
MENTAL HYGIENE READINGS AND DISCUSSION TOPICS
ca. 1943 FALL Box-Folder: 01-009
NOTES CONCERNING 30-HOUR LECTURE COURSE
ca. 1943 Box-Folder: 01-010
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL, PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, WARD MANUAL DRAFTS; NOTES CONCERNING WARD TEACHING PROGRAM
ca. 1943-44 Box-Folder: 01-011
NEW YORK HOSPITAL, PAYNE WHITNEY CLINIC, STUDENTS' MANUAL
[1944] Box-Folder: 01-012
COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE, EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLASS NOTES AND ARTICLES
1944, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-013
COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE AND OTHER SOURCES: MATERIALS CONCERNING ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY
1944 FALL, 1953 Box-Folder: 01-014
COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE, REFERENCE MATERIALS CONCERNING MENTAL HEALTH
ca. 1944-45 Box-Folder: 01-015
COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE, NURSING EDUCATION CLASS PAPER CONCERNING MUSIC THERAPY
1945 Box-Folder: 01-016
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, REFERENCE MATERIALS CONCERNING DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY OF MENTAL ILLNESS
1936, 1947, 1950, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-017
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, REFERENCE MATERIALS AND NOTES CONCERNING TEACHING AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT
ca. 1944-45 Box-Folder: 01-018
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ADMINISTRATION, CLASS SCHEDULES AND STUDENT LISTS
1945 Box-Folder: 01-019
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, NOTES CONCERNING MEETING WITH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
[1945] Box-Folder: 01-020
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, PSYCHIATRIC NURSING CLASS EXAMS
1945-47, n.d. Box-Folder: 01-021
LETTER CONCERNING NAVAL NURSE OFFICER PROGRAM
1946 Box-Folder: 01-022
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, COURSE OUTLINES, PROPOSALS, REFERENCE LISTS, AND NOTES
1947, ca. 1945-48 Box-Folder: 01-023
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, ASSIGNMENTS
1964, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-001
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, COURSE OUTLINES AND CURRICULUM INFORMATION
1959, 1960, ca. 1964 Box-Folder: 02-002
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, EVALUATION FORMS
ca. 1965-67 Box-Folder: 02-003
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, EXAMINATIONS
1963, 1964, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-004
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
1961, 1965, 1968, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-005
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, REFERENCE MATERIALS CONCERNING ALCOHOLISM
1955-1964, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-006
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, REFERENCE MATERIALS ON BRAIN DISORDERS
1964, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-007
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, REFERENCE MATERIALS CONCERNING DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY OF MENTAL ILLNESS, AND NURSING RESPONSIBILITIES
1952, ca. 1965-67 Box-Folder: 02-008
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, REFERENCE MATERIALS CONCERNING DRUGS AND DRUG THERAPY
1960-63, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-009
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, SCHOOL OF NURSING, ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM, REFERENCE MATERIALS CONCERNING PEDIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH
1955-1966, n.d. Box-Folder: 02-010
PAMPHLETS: CONCERNING NURSING EDUCATION/ACCREDITATION
ca. 1935, 1941-46 Box-Folder: 03-001
PAMPHLETS: CONCERNING CONTRACEPTION, FIRST AID, INFANT CARE, POLIO
1936, 1940, 1944, n.d. Box-Folder: 03-002
PAMPHLETS: CONCERNING MENTAL HEALTH
1951-1960, n.d. Box-Folder: 03-003
PAMPHLETS: CONCERNING MENTAL HEALTH PUBLICATIONS AND FILMS; VIRGINIA STATUTES RELATIVE TO MENTAL HYGIENE
1959, 1960 Box-Folder: 03-004
PAMPHLETS: MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES: 1) CENTRAL STATE HOSPITAL, 2) LYNCHBURG TRAINING SCHOOL, 3) SAINT ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL, 4) EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL, 5) VIRGINIA TREATMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN
1960-64, n.d. Box-Folder: 03-005
REPRINTS, ARTICLES: VARIOUS TOPICS, INCLUDING MENTAL HEALTH NURSING AND THERAPY
1934-1964 Box-Folder: 03-006
ITEMS CONCERNING THE BOOTH DONATION
1998, ca. 2000 Box-Folder: 03-007
UNIFORM: MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL NURSE'S UNIFORM, WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF ALICE CONSTANCE (BURFORD) BOOTH IN UNIFORM
1943 Box-Folder: 04-001
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