St. Mary’s School of Nursing (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Records, 1894-1969.
Call Number: Milwaukee Manuscript Collection CV & Milwaukee Small Collection 69
Archives, Golda Meir Library

The Records of Milwaukee’s St. Mary’s School of Nursing documents the school from its inception in 1894 to its final year in 1969. The collection contains all existing records of the school, including records concerning administration, faculty, accreditation, curriculum, and students and alumnae; plus photographs, news clippings, and lantern slides. The collection also provides information on the Daughters of Charity, St. Mary’s Hospital, a variety of medical and nursing topics, and detailed records of student’s disciplinary, scholastic, and clinical failures.


Ingeborg Sponland
My Reasonable Service.
Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1938.
Gift of UWM Center for Nursing History. From the collection of the Milwaukee Hospital School of Nursing.

Call Number: (SPL) BV 4425 .S6 A3 1938
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library
This autobiography of Sister Ingeborg Sponland, is also a detailed account of the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess public health and nursing movement in the Upper Midwest, and the training of Norwegian-American Deaconess nurses for missionary, teaching, and health service work around the world.

Herman L. Fritschel
A Story of One Hundred Years of Deaconess Service: By the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses, Pennsylvania, and the Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse at Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1849-1949
Milwaukee: Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse, 1949.

Call Number: (SPL) BX 8074 .B4 F75x 1949
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

History of the German Lutheran Deaconess nursing and public health movement. This movement established its headquarters, or Motherhouse, in Milwaukee in 1893, and founded the institution that eventually became the Sinai Samaritan Hospital in Milwaukee

June C. Kjome
Back of Beyond. Bush Nurse in South Africa
Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963

Call Number: (SPL) RA 395 .Z8 K5 1963
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

A memoir by June C. Kjome, currently a Milwaukee resident, of her twenty years of missionary nursing work in what was then Zululand, South Africa.

 


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