Cool Chicks from History

“American Nurses”

Washington DC suffrage parade

March 3, 1913

According to the program, the leaders of this section were Priscilla Page and Lillian Wald.  Lillian Wald was a pioneer of community nursing and founder of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.  

Nurses showing the eleven babies that were born on New Year’s Day 1933 in a hospital in Berlin, Germany.

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Mary Tippee; Zouaves Unit; 114th Pennsylvania-Photograph taken at the Tyson Brothers studio in Gettysburg, wearing the Kearny Cross she received for gallantry on the field of Fredericksburg where she was wounded in the ankle by a bullet.

Mary Tebe / Mary Tippee / Mary Tippie. A vivandere was a combination nurse, cook, seamstress, and laundress who travelled with the Zouaves. A vivandiere adopted the style of clothing of her regiment, but with men’s pants under a knee-length skirt. 

Most vivandiere’s were sent home when the heavy fighting started, so Mary is considered the only enlisted woman at Gettysburg where she carried water and treated the wounded during the heaviest of the fighting. She was in 13 battles, and carried a .44 caliber pistol.

Christmas in a German hospital for wounded soldiers, Berlin 1914.

V.A.Ds  (Voluntary Aid Detachments) preparing their Christmas decorations at the 1st Australian General Hospital in Gaza.

Christmas 1941

Cadet Nurse Marguerite V. Clodfelter circa 1943-1945.

Photo via Jackson Library, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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A Soviet nurse in action on the battlefield, 1943.
Grigory Konovalov

ilovecharts:

Florence: Mother of Nursing - Mother of  Infographics?

Florence Nightingale was not only a pioneer in the world of nursing - she was also a statistician. This polar area diagram of causes of death in the Crimean War is a form of pie chart that she created. It’s informative and combines graphic and text to tell a powerful story about the decline in deaths from infectious diseases during the war.

(Source: publichealthrn)

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“Matronly persons … will always have preference”

Circular No. 8 Regarding Requirements for Female Nursing Applicants, 07/14/1862

In 1861, shortly after the Battle of Bull Run, U.S. Surgeon General William Hammond appointed Dorothea Dix as Superintendent of U.S. Army Nurses. This circular lays out Dix’s requirements for women who wanted to serve. Strict age and marriage requirements stemmed from fears that mixing young unmarried women with soldiers would lead to scandal. Dix appointed approximately 3,000 women to nursing positions. Approximately 30,000 women served in nursing and relief operations on both sides of the conflict.

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Graduates of the School for Nurses, Toronto General Hospital that were appointed to Staff No.4 General Hospital in Salonica, Greece.

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Cross of Merit for Women and Girls

This award (Verdienstkreuz für Frauen und Jungfrauen), similar in design to the Iron Cross but additionally adorned with a red cross symbol and a crown on the reverse, was intended as a corresponding decoration for women. Recipients were honoured at the request of Empress Augusta, the wife of the now-Kaiser Wilhelm I. Her monogram also appears on the reverse. The award was instituted in 1871 to commemorate the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/1. The majority of the recipients appear to be royals and the wives and daughters of the aristocracy; also honoured were women who had cared for the wounded during the war.

The full list of recipients can be viewed here.

Canaries who live aboard Ambulance Train to cheer wounded with song

Miss V. Allen conducting a demonstration class of practical nursing at the Princess Margaret Hospital School for Nursing, Dar es Salaam. The dummy patient is “Miss Chess.”