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Nursing History Centers, Museums and Archives
This is a listing of some centers and archives available
for study of the history of nursing. It is not a comprehensive list; historical
research involves considerable searching for source material. There are
presently two searchable databases for archival holdings in the United
States but inclusion in the database is voluntary and entry may lag behind
submission. This list includes regional centers which serve as nursing
repositories, and some specialty nursing organizations with archives as
well as institutions with significant holdings in nursing. Additions and
corrections to this list are encouraged; please contact aahn@aahn.org
For information on using archives and primary sources see: Using
Archives
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preserve their history, here are two sources of information:
The Society of American Archivists has published
a
Guide to Donating Personal Papers to a Repository
In conjunction with Psychiatric/Mental Health
Nursing in New York State Records Survey The NYSNA Foundation
has prepared Caring for Archival Records: Preserving Nursing's
Historic Treasures, advice and resources for nurses and others
with historical records under their care. What to save and Where
to Save it are addressed. This page offers the basics on caring
for archival records for individuals and organizations without
a trained archivist on staff.
Caring
for Archival Records.
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List of Centers, Archives and Museums
United States
ArchiveGrid,
is a searchable database of archives.
National
Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections [NUCMC],
from the Library of Congress, also searches RLG Union Catalog
ArchiveUSA
provides access to an integrated database of three sources:
NUCMC--National Union Catalog of Manuscript
Collections,
NIDS--National Inventory of Documentary Resources in the
United States, and
DAMRUS--Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories
in the United States.
Available through subscription
The History of the Health Sciences Section of Medical
Library Association has a list of
History
of the Health Sciences Libraries and Archives
The Special Collections at the Universtiy of Idaho has a listing of
archives Repositories
List
Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions houses the Johns Hopkins Nursing Historical Collection,
the Church Home Nursing Collection and the Dorothea Orem Collection.
The Johns Hopkins and Church Home collections contain personal papers
of nearly 200 individual nurses, including Isabel Hampton Robb, Adelaide
Nutting, and Anna Wolf, as well as photographs, material culture, a
Florence Nightingale Collection, and institutional records of the Johns
Hopkins and Church Home schools of nursing and their alumni associations.
The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
5801 Smith Avenue, Suite 235
Baltimore, MD 21209
Telephone: (410) 735-6800
Fax. (410) 735-6770
www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu
American Association for Nurse Anesthetists
(AANA) Archives
222 S. Prospect Ave.
Park Ridge, IL 60068-4001
Kathy Koch, MLIS
Telephone: (847) 692-7050, ext.3006
www.aana.com
KKoch@aana.com
American National Red Cross
The Hazel Braugh Records Center houses current and inactive records
of the American National Red Cross, and has a collection of books, photographs,
tapes and films.
Hazel
Braugh Records Center
American Red Cross
5818 Seminary Road
Falls Church, VA 22041
Telephone: (703) 813-5380
Fax: (703) 813-5389
Many historical
American Red Cross nursing files are in the Red Cross gifted material
at the National Archives (II), managed as Records Group 200. Indexes
to this material are available at both the Hazel Braugh Center
and the National Archives:
National Archives at College Park
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Telephone: (301) 713-6800
National Archives
Guide
to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
For World War I Era Military Nursing, records are located at National
Archives (I):
National Archives
Pennsylvania Avenue at 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20408
Telephone: (202) 501-5385
Archives of Nursing Leadership
The Archives of Nursing Leadership is a joint program of the University
of Connecticut School of Nursing and the Thomas J. Dodd Research. The
archives acquires, preserves and make accessible the papers and records
of Connecticut organizations that support the nursing profession and
the personal papers of individuals who have made a significant contribution
to nursing within the state. The collection includes the Josephine Dolan
papers, the Virginia Henderson Research Collection the Connecticut Training
School for Nurses Alumni Association, and the North East Organization
for Nursing (NEON).
Archives & Special Collections
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
405 Babbidge Rd U-205
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1005
Telephone: (860) 486-2524
DoddRef@Lib.UConn.edu
Josephine
A. Dolan Collection
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the
History of Nursing
The center, at the University of Pennsylvania, was established
in 1985 to encourage and facilitate historical scholarship on health
care history and nursing in the United States. The Center continues
to create and maintain a resource for such research; to improve the
quality and scope of historical scholarship on nursing; and to disseminate
new knowledge on nursing history through education, conferences, publications,
and inter-disciplinary collaboration.
University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing, Nursing Education Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-9959
Telephone: (215) 898-4502
Dr. Julie Fairman, Director
nhistory@nursing.upenn.edu
Barbara
Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History
The center is part of the Foundation of the New York State Nurses
Association.
Some of the holdings are:
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NYSNA, New York State Nurses for
Political Action, Records, 1971-87,
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New York State School Nurse Teachers
Association, Records, 1931-78,
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NYSNA 1952-98, Genesee Valley Nurses'
Association Archives, Records, 1939-45,
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Ellis Hospital School of Nursing
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New York State Nurses for Political
Action
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New York State School Nurse Teachers
Association
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Nurses Association of the Counties
of Long Island Archives, Records, 1920-91,
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District 1 of NYSNA, Records, 1919-69,
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Council of Deans of Nursing: Senior
Colleges and Universities in New York State, Records, 1964-93,
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Nurses House Archives, Records,
1925-98
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"Preserving the History of Psychiatric/Mental
Health Nursing:
A Guide to Locating Psychiatric/Mental Health
Nursing Records in New York State"
The personal papers of Martha Rogers, Eleanor Lambertson, Elaine E. Beletz and Marguerite
B. Harris are also here.
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History
The Veronica Driscoll Center for Nursing
2113 Western Avenue
Guilderland, New York 12084-9501
mail@FoundationNYSNurses.org
Telephone: (518) 456-7858 ext. 24
Fax: (518) 452-3760
www.FoundationNYSNurses.org
Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Established at the University of Virginia in 1991 to support historical
scholarship in nursing, the Center is dedicated to the preservation
and study of nursing history in the United States. The goals of the
Center include the collection of materials, the promotion of scholarship,
and the dissemination of historical research findings.
The Center runs a regular series of nursing history forums, sponsors
the annual Agnes Dillon Randolph Award and Lecture, mounts exhibits,
awards a yearly historical research fellowship, and publishes a newsletter,
Windows in Time.
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
McLeod Hall
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Dr. Arlene Keeling, Director
Telephone: (434) 924-0131
nurs-hxc@virginia.edu
Archivist: Anne McKeithen
Telephone: 434-924-0083
Center
for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Center for Nursing History, Ethics, and
Human Rights
The Center for Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights, established
at Purdue University in 2003, promotes leadership and advocacy in
historical, ethical, and human rights issues influencing healthcare.
Center for Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights
Purdue University School of Nursing
502 N. University Street
Johnson Hall of Nursing
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2069
Telephone: (765) 494-4023
Fax: (765) 494-6339
Center
for Nursing History, Ethics, and Human Rights
Clendening History of Medicine Library
The collection includes a letters from Florence Nightingale, which
have been digitized.
University of Kansas Medical Center
3901 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City KS 66160-7311
Telephone: (913) 588-7244
Fax: (913) 588-7060
Clendening
History of Medicine
Crile Hospital Archives
This is a former US Army Hospital is to document the history of
the African American Nurse. They are eliciting materials to further
enhance the collection.
E-mail Dr. Banks
The Crile Archives Western Campus C.C.C.
11000 Pleasant Valley Road
Parma, OH 44130
Telephone: (216) 987-5594
Fax: (216) 987-5050
Crile Hospital
Archives-Current Project
The Florence and Ike Sewell Museum, Northwestern Hospital, Chicago
251 East Huron Street
Feinberg Pavilion, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL
Museum
at Northwestern Hospital
History of Medicine Division at the National Library
of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine manuscript collection includes
the American College of Nurse Midwives, the Henry Street Settlement,
National Organization for Public Health Nursing, the Society of
Superintendents of Training Schools and the National League for
Nursing Education and the National League for Nursing .
The Prints and Photographs Collection includes a pictorial documentation
of nursing; an index is available and copies may be purchased.
History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Telephone: (301) 496-5405
National Library
of Medicine
Historical Nursing Archives Westchester Rockland County [NY]
Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University
This collection focuses on local nursing history in Westchester/Rockand
Counties, New York emphasizing the activities of schools of nursing
and health care organizations. The collection has five major categories:
Zeta Omega at-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International; Nurses
Association of Westchester County of New York State; Lienhard School
of Nursing, Pace University (NY); New York Medical College Graduate
School of Nursing and miscellaneous photographs, artifacts, books,
audio-visual tapes and other materials.
The collection is housed on the Pleasantville Campus of Pace University
in the Doris and Edward Mortola Library, 861 Bedford Road in Pleasantville,
New York, 10570.
Call (914) 773-3380 for an appointment.
A finder's guide is available online
HNAWR
Archive Website
History of Nursing Archives
Collection includes personal and professional papers of nursing leaders;
records of the schools of nursing; public health and professional
nursing organizations; histories of various American and foreign schools
of nursing, including early textbooks; as well as a very extensive
book collection. Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
History
of Nursing Archives, Boston
Hunter College Special Collections
Mary L. Pekarski Collection in the
Burns Library, Boston College
The Pekarski Collection has focused on the history of nursing; bioethics;
and the Catholic, especially Jesuit, influence on nursing. The collection
includes: Josephine Dolan Collection - including letters from Florence
Nightingale and Dorothea Lynde Dix, the New England Deaconess Hospital
School of Nursing Collection - from founding in 1893 to closing in
1989, the Rita P. Kelleher Collection the Margaret Colliton Collection
, MICA, VNA of Boston, Legal/Ethical Aspects of Nursing, The American
Association of Nurse Attorneys, and North American Nursing Diagnosis
Association (NANDA) archives.
Boston
College Libraries
Midwest Nursing History Research
Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago
maintains a museum with nursing related artifacts.
845 S. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL 60612-7350
Telephone: (312) 996-0621
Fax: (312) 996-8945
ghlo@uic.edu
Midwest
Nursing History Resource Center
Records and papers have been moved to the University of Illinois at
Chicago University Archives at the Library of the Health Sciences
Special Collections Department.
The website has transcriptions of some Nightingale letters
Archives/Special Collections
Library of the Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
1750 West Polk
Chicago, IL 60616-7223
Telephone: (312) 996-8977
UIC
Archives
Museum of Nursing History
The museum is an important educational arm for the community concerning
the contribution of nursing past and present. It is a repository in
which individuals can place priceless memorabilia - books, documents,
letters, photographs, scrapbooks, yearbooks, caps and uniforms (prior
to 1920), medals, pins and military artifacts. At: Friends Hospital
8th & 4641 Roosevelt Blvd
Philadelphia
Museum's Mailing address:
The Museum of Nursing History, Inc.
761 Sproul Road, #299
Springfield, PA 19064
Telephone: (215) 843-9501
www.nursinghistory.org
Oncology Nursing Society Archives
Oncology Nursing Society
501 Holiday Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15220-2749
Telephone: (412) 928-9584 #255
Fax: (412) 921-6565
ONS
Archives
Rush University Medical Center Archives
These Chicago Nursing Schools have their records at Rush:
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Presbyterian Hospital School of
Nursing
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St. Luke's Hospital Training School
for Nurses
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Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital
School of Nursing
Southwest Center for Nursing History
Collections focus on regional nursing history.
The Center for American History
The University of Texas at Austin
Sid Richardson Hall 2.101
1 University Station D1100
Austin, Texas 78712-0335
Telephone: 512-471-4910
Southwest
Center for Nursing History
Special Collections, Teachers College,and
Columbia University Medical Center
Of special interest to nurses is the archives of the Nursing Education
Department, founded by Mary Adelaide Nutting. The Medical Center Archives
has Nightingale Letters.
The Gottesman Libraries Teachers College, Columbia University 525 West
120th Street New York, NY 10027
Telephone: (212) 678-4104
Fax: (212) 678-3092
Special
Collections Columbia University Medical Center
Archives & Special Collections,Columbia University Medical Center
Health Sciences Library, Lower Level 1
701 W. 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
Special Collections,
Teachers College
Southern Labor Archives
Located in the Special Collections Department at Georgia State University.
The collections include records of state nurses associations from the
District of Columbia, Maryland, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia.
Special Collections & Archives,
Georgia State University Library,
100 Decatur Street SE,
Georgia State University,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3202
Southern
Labor Archives
United States Army Center of Military
History, Army Nurse Corps Collection
This web site contains considerable content and photographs relevant to
the history of the Army Nurse Corps.
Richard Prior, Army Nurse Corps Historian
Office of Medical History, Office of the Surgeon General
5109 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041
Telephone: (703) 681-2849
Army Nurse Corps
- History Web Page
University of Maryland School
of Nursing Museum
Permanent museum exhibition and growing archives documenting the evolution
of Maryland's largest and oldest continuously operated school of nursing
from its founding as a hospital training school in 1889 to a leading research
institution. Museum transcends its institutional roots to offer an evocative
depiction of modern American nursing. University of Maryland School of
Nursing Museum
655 W. Lombard Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Telephone: (410) 706-1502
Fax: (410) 706-0399
University
of Maryland
ViaHealth Archives Consortium
The Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives, Genesee Hospital Archives,
TGH School Nursing Archives, Myers Community Hospital, Sodus New York,
Rochester General Hospital Collects and preserves materials and disseminates
information that chronicles the development of Rochester City/Rochester
General Hospital and its Affiliates. The collections include the School
of Nursing at Rochester City/General hospital (1880-1964), Isabella Graham
Hart School of Practical Nursing (1964 - present), Florence Nightingale
Post American Legion (1918 -present), Base Hospital 19 (1916-1920), 19th
General Hospital, AUS (1940-1950), Fitch's French Military Hospital (1914-1919),
Genesee Hospital, Myers Community Hospital, Behavioral Health (Rochester
Mental Health Center) Collection plus several tenant collections including:
The New York State and Genesee Dietetic Associations and the Society for
Total Emergency Programs (STEP)
333 Humboldt Street,
Rochester New York 14610.
Telephone: (585) 922-1847
Baker-Cederberg
Canada
Associated Medical Services Nursing History Research
Unit
The Unit is the first funded research unit in Canada dedicated to the
history of nursing. The Research Unit will develop, nurture and coordinate
the study of nursing history in Canada. The Unit also aims to coordinate
the donations of nursing archival sources to appropriate depositories
and to maintain a comprehensive bibliography on Canadian nursing history.
The AMS Nursing History Research Unit is located in the School of Nursing
at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Meryn Stuart, Director.
Dr Jayne Elliott, Research Facilitator/Administrator
Room 3245A, School of Nursing
University of Ottawa
451 Smyth Road
Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5
Canada
AMS
Nursing History Research Unit
Margaret M. Allemang Centre for the History of Nursing
The Margaret M Allemang Centre for the History of Nursing is an organization
open to anyone interested in the history of nursing in Ontario, Canada.
Founded in 1993, the Centre works to increase the visibility of nursing's
major role in our society. Their newsletter is online.
355 Millwood Road
Toronto, Ontario M4S 1J9
E-mail Dr. Young
Margaret M. Allemang
Centre for the History of Nursing
Musee des Hospitalieres de l'Hotel-Dieu de Montreal
Located next to the Hotel-Dieu Hospital, this museum tells the story of
the foundation of Montreal and of the exceptional life of Jeanne Mance.
Although not a member of the order, she led the work of cloistered nuns
who tended the sick in early Montreal beginning in 1644.
201 Avenue des Pins Ouest
Montreal, Quebec H2W 1R5 Canada
Telephone: (514) 849-2919
Musee
des Hospitalieres de l'Hotel-Dieu de Montreal
Nursing History Resource Centre
The Nursing History Resource Centre was established in July 1992 through
the initial support of the Nurses Association of New Brunswick. The Centre,
custodian for New Brunswick nursing's past, has an exhibit area that holds
display cases with pin and cap collections, nursing tools, medical artifacts,
pictures and uniformed mannequins. An adjoining archives holds collections
of nursing books, scrapbooks, audiovisual artifacts, catalogued pictures
and primary and secondary source documents, etc.
Nurses Association of New Brunswick
165 Regent Street
Fredericton, N. B. Canada E3B 7B4
Telephone: (506) 458-8731
Fax: (506) 459-2838
nanb@nanb.nb.ca
Nursing History Resource
Centre
International
ARCHON
ARCHON Directory includes contact details for record repositories in
the United Kingdom
Archives
Hub
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities
and colleges
RAAM
Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts
New Zealand National Register of Archives and Manuscripts
NRAM
UNESCO
Archives Portal
An international gateway to information for archivists and archives
users.
EAN
EAN: European Archival Network
The British Library
A significant collection of Florence Nightingale letters are housed here
[as well as in the Wellcome Library].
The British Library
St Pancras,
96 Euston Road,
London, NW1 2DB
Nightingale
Letters at British Library
Danish Museum of Nursing History
The museum is housed in a former sanitorium for children with tuberculosis.
A library and an archive are also housed here.
Fjordevej 152
Strandhuse, 6000 Kolding
museum@dshm.dk
Danish Museum of Nursing
History
European Archives
The collection of millions of primary documents dating from the 1950's
and formerly housed in the EU embassy in Washington, DC is the only complete
EU Archives/Library besides the one in Brussels. While many European institutions
have partial holdings any scholar working in the post-1960 period in history
of medicine/science who wants access to the complete EU archives/library
has to either come to Pittsburgh for total open access or go to Brussels
and fight their way through the complex EU institutional bureaucracy.
The contact person for access to the EU Archives at the U. of Pittsburgh
is Dr. Phil Wilkin who can be reached at pwilkin@pitt.edu. Information
on available housing near the university can be gotten by contacting John
Erlen, Ph.D. at erlen@pitt.edu or 412-6488927.
Florence Nightingale Museum Trust
2 Lambeth Palace Road,
London SE1, 7EW UK
Telephone: 00 44 20 7620 0374 Fax: 00 44 171 928 1760
Curator@florence-nightingale.co.uk
Florence
Nightingale Museum Trust
Hilde-Steppe-Archive Documentation Centre
for Nursing
Located in Frankfurt Germany, The Documentation Centre started with the
personal collection of Hilde Steppe. While the current focus is nursing
during the Nazi era, it is hoped that it will be possible in the future
to expand the collection of the Centre to include other important aspects
of German and European nursing history.
Mailing address:
Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main
Dokumentationsstelle Pflege / Hilde-Steppe-Archive
Nibelungenplatz 1
60318 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Hilda Steppe Archive
Institute for the History of Medicine of the
Robert Bosch
In 1994, the Robert Bosch Foundation launched a grant program for projects
on the history of nursing. Since then nursing history has become one of
the main research fields of the Institute for the History of Medicine
(), complementing the two other areas of research, i.e. social history
of medicine and history of homeopathy. Currently there are three Ph.D.
students working on the history of nursing. The Institute organises national
and international congresses and workshops. I t also keeps enlarging its
research library by buying books on nursing history. The Institute cooperates
with the Ruhr University of Bochum in collecting nursing history sources
from the German speaking countries.
Straussweg 17
D-70188 Stuttgart, Germany
Stuttgart,Germany
Robert Bosch Foundation
The Royal British Nurses' Association Archives
Minutes from 1887, membership records, other organization archives are
housed at House at Kings College, Kings's College, The Strand, London,
WC2R 2LS. To use the archives contact the RBNA:
Riverbank House Business Centre, Room 502
1 Putney Bridge Approach
London SW6 3JD
Royal British
Nurses' Association Archives
Royal College of Nursing, Scotland - Archives and
Oral History Collection
The RCN Archives are a unique record of the development of the profession
of nursing in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1916, the archives
record its role as a professional organisation with international links,
as an educational body providing the first post-registration courses for
nurses in the UK, and as a trade union negotiating, lobbying and campaigning.
The RCN Archives hold the records of other nursing organisations and of
hundreds of individual nurses in its oral history collection. Hours are
Monday-Friday 09.30-16.30 by appointment.
RCN ARCHIVES
42 South Oswald Road
Edinburgh, EH9 2HH, United Kingdom
archives@rcn.org.uk
RCN
Archives
UK Centre for the History of Nursing
The UK Centre for the History of Nursing is a joint venture between The
Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University
College (QMUC) that provides a focus for nursing history in Europe. Both
RCN and QMUC have outstanding archive and educational resources that are
the heart of the centre. Its task is to build awareness of the importance
of nursing history through education and research.
Nurses and other students can take the country's first postgraduate diploma
in history of nursing, developed specifically by QMUC, while students
and researchers can visit the RCN's unique archive in Edinburgh. The website
has links to archival material in the UK. The centre will lead UK-wide
research activity through a network of universities and institutions led
by Oxford Brookes University, and including the Wellcome Unit for the
History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow.
UK Centre for the History
of Nursing
Wellcome Library
Collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the
history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day. There
is a significant collection of Nightingale material in this collection
and a guide is available online:
Guide to Nightingale Sources at Wellcome Library .
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
Wellcome Library
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