Descriptive Summary
Repository: University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Title: Aline Jeannette (Vier) Shrum Collection
Physical Characteristics: 0.5 linear feet; 1 box, plus artifacts
Language: English
Collector: Aline Jeannette (Vier) Shrum.
Biographical Information
Aline Jeannette (Vier) Shrum (1924-2012) was a native of London, England. She entered the nurse training program at Guy's Hospital, London, in 1943, graduating in 1947. Vier subsequently traveled to the Natal province of South Africa -- now Kwa-Zulu-Natal -- where she practiced nursing at Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, until 1951. After a brief interlude back in England, Vier returned to South Africa, where she worked as a nursing sister at the Florence Nightingale Private Hospital, in Johannesburg, until 1954. She returned again to England for a little more than a year, then sailed for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she found employment at the Strangers' Hospital, remaining there until March 1957. In autumn that year, she began work at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, staying at this London hospital until the end of 1958. Vier married Calvin Shrum the next year, and for two decades the couple lived in France, Greece, and Iran. They retired to Scottsville, Virginia after residing in a number of other locations in the United States.
Scope and Content
This small collection contains materials from Aline Jeannette (Vier) Shrum's early professional career as a nurse, 1946-1958. Ms. Shrum worked principally at sites overseas from her native London: South Africa and Brazil. Official documents and correspondence record her trajectory and assignments, including immunization and health certification records, tax documents from the authorities in South Africa, and rules for nurses (promulgated by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales in 1924 and 1931). A number of publications from Guy's Hospital, London, give history, news, and medical information for the hospital's nurse graduates. Of particular interest is a photograph album showing African patients at Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, South Africa. The Shrum Collection also includes four metal boxes outfitted for travel; three of these contain medical supplies and equipment, not yet inventoried.
Series Description
Arrangement
The Aline Jeannette (Vier) Shrum Collection is organized alphabetically by general subject heading, followed by the artifacts. Folder contents are chronological.
Contents List
BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE
ca. 2012 Box-Folder: 01-001
CERTIFICATES AND GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS [ONE OVERSIZE CERTIFICATE contained in Oversize COLLECTION 04-06-001: Guy's Hospital Nursing School diploma, London, England, April 1947.]
1946-1978 Box-Folder: 01-002
CORRESPONDENCE
1950-58 Box-Folder: 01-003
GUY'S HOSPITAL, LONDON, SCHOOL OF NURSING
1947-1998 Box-Folder: 01-004
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, PRINCIPALLY CONCERNING GREY'S HOSPITAL, PIETERMARITZBURG, NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA [SOME PHOTOGRAPHS MISSING]
1948-1951 Box-Folder: 01-005
PHOTOGRAPHS
ca. 1943-2012 Box-Folder: 01-006
ARTIFACTS
1) One painted ceramic figurine of a Guy's Hospital Staff Nurse, in a 1960s uniform. Date of manufacture: 1996, number 364 of 750. Height: 9 inches.
1996 Box-Folder: 01-007
Oversize Artifacts
ca. 1950s, n.d.
1) Box 1: Medical Supplies in a 19th-century metal box, marked Chubb & Son, Makers, 57 St. Paul's Church Yard, London [ with graffiti dated 1858, 1863]: CONTENTS INVENTORIED IN ECBCNHI ARTIFACTS LOG
2) Box 2: Medical Supplies in metal box, unmarked:
CONTENTS INVENTORIED AND LISTED IN ECBCNHI ARTIFACTS LOG
3) Box 3: Medical Supplies in metal box, marked: A.W. Gamage, Ltd., Holborn, London, G.1:
CONTENTS INVENTORIED AND LISTED IN ECBCNHI ARTIFACTS LOG
4) Box 4: metal box, unmarked:
EMPTY
5) Two (2) prints Guy's Hospital, London, taken from ink drawings by Hanslip Fletcher, 1946. SHELVED WITH OVERSIZE COLLECTION 04-04-003 AND 04-04-004.
NURSING PROCEDURE NOTES: “E.N.T. AND EYES.”
n.d. Box-Folder: 01-008
Notes
Access
No Restrictions
Use Restrictions
No Restrictions
Preferred Citation
University of Virginia School of Nursing, Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Aline Jeannette (Vier) Shrum Collection
Processing Information
Processed by Henry K. Sharp in 2012.