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| Nursing has long been a traditionally women’s vocation in our society. Before the organization of nursing as a profession, early nursing manuals were specifically directed at women in the home whose responsibility it was to care for sick household members. Obstetrics and maternity education were one of first areas of health and nursing to be taught to women. As nursing developed into a professional discipline, educational approaches toward obstetrics, maternity, pediatrics, and a range of other medical and health issues reflected the enormous change and growth that occurred in these fields and in society at large. |
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Mary H. Stinson XVI Lectures on Nursing, Given Under the Auspices of the Montgomery Co. Medical Society: Lecture VI. Foods for the Sick, February 13, 1884 Norristown: J. H. Brandt, Book & Job Printer, 1884 Call Number: RM219 .S784x 1884 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
| H. H. (Harry Hubbell) Kane The Sick-Room: A Practical Manual on Nursing with a Chapter on the Dietary of the Sick New York: National Printing Co., 1879 Acquired with the support of the Friends of the Golda Meir Library. Call Number: (SPL) RT 41 .K33x 1879 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
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Monfort B. Allen and Amelia C. McGregor The Glory of Women or Love, Marriage and Maternity: Containing Full Information on All the Marvelous and Complex Matters Pertaining to Women Including Creative Science, Bearing, Nursing and Rearing Children, Hereditary Descent, Hints on Courtship and Marriage, Promoting Health and Beauty, Vigor of Mind and Body, etc., etc., Together with the Diseases Peculiar to the Female Sex, Their Causes, Symptoms and Treatment, The Whole Forming a Complete Medical Guide for Women Chicago: H. J. Smith Publishing Co., 1896 Call Number: (SPL) RG 121 .A43 1896c Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
| Mary Adelaide Nutting, 1858-1948 and Lavina L. Dock, 1858-1919 A History of Nursing; The Evolution of Nursing Systems from the Earliest Times to the Foundation of the First English and American Training Schools for Nurse 4 Volumes. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907-1912. Gift of UWM Center for Nursing History. From the collection of the Methodist Hospital School for Nurses, Madison, Wisconsin. Call Number: (SPL) RT 31 .N95 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
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| M. Adelaide Nutting and Lavina Dock were influential leaders in the rise of organized nursing and the development of nursing education in the United States. As principal of the Johns Hopkins Nursing program, Nutting recognized the importance of collecting materials and books for an historical collection for the nursing school. This collection became the basis for the first two volumes of A History of Nursing. Nutting, through letters, speeches, and published works, worked to realize her dream of seeing basic education for nurses established in universities. In 1907 Nutting took charge of the hospital economics course at Teachers College at Columbia University, and became the first professor of nursing in the world. Due to her demanding schedule, it fell to Lavina Dock, then Secretary of the International Council of Nurses, to complete the last two volumes of A History of Nursing. A History of Nursing became the classic of nursing history and by its very production denoted the rise in standing of organized nursing. | |
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Aaron Samuel Blumgarten, 1884-1958 Textbook of Materia Medica 4th Edition. New York: MacMillan Company, 1926 Gift of UWM Center for Nursing History. From the collection of Genevieve Hillier, Maternity and General Hospital, Milwaukee. Call Number: (SPL) RM 125 .B6 1926 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
| Grace Fay Schryver A History of the Illinois Training School for Nurses Chicago: The Board of Directors of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, 1930. Gift of UWM Center for Nursing History. Call Number: (SPL) RT 80 .I32 S37x 1930 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library The UWM nursing history collection has a strong focus on the early histories of nursing. Future acquisitions will concentrate in the areas of state and local nursing histories. |
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Maternity Center Association (New York, N.Y.) Routines for Maternity Nursing and Briefs for Mothers Club Talks 4th Edition. New York: s.n., 1935 Gift of UWM Center for Nursing History Three Maternity Center Association information flyers laid in: "Advice for Mothers"; "Advice for Fathers"; "A Message to Husbands and Wives, Too." Publisher's advertisement and order form for "Maternity Handbook" laid in. Call Number: (SPL) RG 551 .M38x 1935 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
| E. H. L. Corwin and Gertrude E. Sturges Opportunities for the Medical Education of Negroes With an Introduction by Dr. Walter L. Niles, and a Foreword by Walter White. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936 Call Number: (SPL) RA 982 .N5 H35 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
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| Recognizing that "the unfavorable health situation among Negroes is rooted in the adverse economic condition from which the Negro suffers," and positing that "the best method of meeting this problem . . . [is the] absolute equality of opportunity and treatment of Negro physicians, nurses and patients," the NAACP commissioned this study of medical education opportunities for African Americans, conducted by "a distinguished biracial group of medical experts and laymen." | |
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John Murray Gibbon, 1875-1952. Three Centuries of Canadian Nursing In collaboration with Mary S. Mathewson. Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd. 1947 Gift of UWM Center for Nursing History. From the collection of St. Mary's School of Nursing, Milwaukee. Call Number: (SPL) RT6 .G5 1947 Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
Mabel Keaton Staupers, 1890- A comprehensive history to 1951 of African Americans in American Nursing by a former President of the National Association of Colored Nurses. |
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Maternity Center Association (New York, N.Y.) Mrs. King Has A Baby New York: Maternity Center Association, [196-?] Gift of UWM Center for Nursing History. Call Number: (SPL) RG 525 .M77x 1960z Special Collections, Golda Meir Library |
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