Nurse Collection (page 8)

Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels, early 20th century (chromolithograph)
536991 Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels, early 20th century (chromolithograph); (add.info.: scene showing Gulliver walking about on the table at the inn as Glumdalcitch)

Group portrait of Lincoln School nurses, 1912 (b/w photo)
8679867 Group portrait of Lincoln School nurses, 1912 (b/w photo) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); New York Public Library, USA; (add.info.: Lincoln School for Nurses)

France, Pays de la Loire, Maine-et-Loire (49), Angers: hospital of Angers, faculty of medicine of Angers
LUX4772846 France, Pays de la Loire, Maine-et-Loire (49), Angers: hospital of Angers, faculty of medicine of Angers, anatomy session, students at work, 1900; (add.info.: France, Pays de la Loire)

American field hospital, Auteuil, c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
American field hospital, Auteuil, c1915. An American field hospital in Auteuil, Paris, France around 1915 during World War I

Lady Baird & wounded at Chambery, 19 June 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Lady Baird & wounded at Chambery, 19 June 1918 (date created or published later). Lady Constance Barbara Baird at the Hopital Militaire Belge (Belgian Military Hospital) at Chambe´ry

Knitting class Lafayette House, knitting class of wounded, between 1917 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Knitting class Lafayette House, knitting class of wounded, between 1917 and c1920. Woman teaching soldiers how to knit at Lafayette House

Red Cross wounded officer, between 1917 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Red Cross wounded officer, between 1917 and c1920. Nurse with wounded officer at Lafayette House, a convalescent home for veterans located at 112 Central Park South, New York City

American Field hospital, Auteuil, c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
American Field hospital, Auteuil, c1915. An American field hospital in Auteuil, Paris, France around 1915 during World War I

Collecting for Red + [Cross] (Countess Mazzuchi), 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Collecting for Red + [Cross] (Countess Mazzuchi), 1918. Countess Chiquita Mazzuchi collecting money for the Red Cross in a large American flag during World War I. Mazzuchi was later accused of fraud

Russian women hospital orderlies, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Russian women hospital orderlies, between c1915 and 1918. Russian hospital workers with soldiers during World War I

British ambulance drivers, 30 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British ambulance drivers, 30 Jul 1917. Elsie Knocker, the Baroness de T'Serclaes (1884-1978) and Mairi Chisholm (1896-1981) standing in the ruins of Pervijze (Pervyse), West Flanders

U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service. U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917
U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. American Red Cross group including doctors and nurses en route to Romania to provide medical relief during World War I

U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service. U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917
U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. American Red Cross group including doctors and nurses en route to Romania to provide medical relief during World War I

Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Queen Mary of Teck inspecting VADs in St. John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples, France on July 6th 1917 during World War I

Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Major Connell, surgeon of the 71st Regiment, inoculating one of the three hundred women in the Women's Motor Corps of the National League

British nurses on hospital barge, 19 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British nurses on hospital barge, 19 Jun 1917. A Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) staff nurse, Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) sisters

Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Red Cross nurses standing behind guns at an Army and Navy Tea Room during a fundraiser for the Actor's Fund

British Voluntary Aid detachment dressing station, 27 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British Voluntary Aid detachment dressing station, 27 Jun 1917. A British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Dressing Station, Abbeville, France on June 27, 1917 during World War I

British Voluntary Aid ambulance drivers at front, 27 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British Voluntary Aid ambulance drivers at front, 27 Jun 1917. Group of British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Women's Transport Service (F.A.N.Y)

Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. The interior of a military hospital car with nurses on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I

Wounded arriving in Allenstein, Prussia, 1 Dec 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Wounded arriving in Allenstein, Prussia, 1 Dec 1914 (date created or published later). Wounded German soldiers being assisted by nurses as they get off a train in Allenstein (now Olsztyn)

German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. German nurses in a class room studying the Russian language during World War I

American Nurse, American ambulance, Paris, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
American Nurse, American ambulance, Paris, between 1914 and c1915. An American nurse with a patient in Paris, France during World War I

A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Soldiers seated at a table in the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I

Kaiserin visiting a train of the wounded at Breslau, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Kaiserin visiting a train of the wounded at Breslau, between 1914 and c1915. Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia (wife of Wilhelm II)

Kaiserin's Hospital Train, kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Kaiserin's Hospital Train, kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. The kitchen on the hospital train of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, (wife of Wilhelm II of Germany), during World War I

Wounded, Quimper, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Wounded, Quimper, 1918. Nun, nurse and wounded soldiers making baskets outside a hospital in Quimper, France during World War I

Hospital of Baroness D'Ephresee, Paris, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Hospital of Baroness D'Ephresee, Paris, between c1914 and c1915. The hospital probably of Baroness Be´atrice Ephrussi de Rothschild in Paris during world War I

Archduchess Auguste, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Archduchess Auguste, between c1910 and c1915. Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875-1964), the wife of Archduke Joseph August of Austria, who served as a nurse in Budapest, Hungary during World War I

Corporal J. Mant in Canadian Hospital, Le Touquet, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Corporal J. Mant in Canadian Hospital, Le Touquet, between c1910 and c1915. Nurse bandaging head of a soldier at the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I

Berlin, Christmas in soldier's hospital, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Berlin, Christmas in soldier's hospital, between 1914 and c1915. A woman playing the piano for soldiers in a hospital in Berlin, Germany at Christmas, during World War I

Countess Forgach, 5 Feb 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Countess Forgach, 5 Feb 1915 (date created or published later). Ilona von Rosty (born Countess Forgach) who served as a representative of the Hungarian Red Cross during World War I

Kaiserin's farewell to Red Cross Sisters, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Kaiserin's farewell to Red Cross Sisters, between 1914 and c1915. Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), wife of Wilhelm II of Germany

Physician and a Woman Patient, ca 1665. Creator: Steen, Jan Havicksz (1626-1679)
Physician and a Woman Patient, ca 1665. Found in the Collection of the National Gallery, Prague

French Red Cross nurses, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
French Red Cross nurses, between c1914 and c1915. French Red Cross nurses during World War I

Wounded Moroccan on stretcher, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Wounded Moroccan on stretcher, between c1914 and c1915. A wounded soldier from Morocco on a stretcher during World War I

English Nurses entraining at London, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
English Nurses entraining at London, between c1914 and c1915. English nurses getting on a train at London, during World War I

On "Red Cross", Sept 1914. Creator: Bain News Service. On "Red Cross", Sept 1914
On "Red Cross", Sept 1914. A group of nurses aboard the "Red Cross" bound for Europe in mid September 1914 at the beginning of World War I

On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Creator: Bain News Service. On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept
On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Medical personnel aboard the "Red Cross" bound for Europe at the beginning of World War I in mid-September 1914

A nurse from Krasny Kerst, Irkutsk resident Zhilkina N. who died at the front, 1917. Creator: Zolotoe Runo
A nurse from Krasny Kerst, Irkutsk resident Zhilkina N. who died at the front, 1917. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

A group of medical students with the teaching staff of the Irkutsk provincial hospital, 1926. Creator: M I Kopylov
A group of medical students with the teaching staff of the Irkutsk provincial hospital, 1926. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The Lady and the Lamp
Daniel Springgay

A Journey into the Herzegovina: Insurgent Hospital at Grahovo, 1876. Creator: C.R
A Journey into the Herzegovina: Insurgent Hospital at Grahovo, 1876....the brave though barbarous mountaineers in the highlands of the Adriatic shore are deserving of English sympathy...the kindest

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Une contre-manifestation patriotique: des aveugles de guerre... 1917 Creator: Unknown
Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Une contre-manifestation patriotique: des aveugles de guerre, guides par une infiermiere, promenent a travers Petrograd cette inscription: , 1917

Les revers Roumains ; au Palais Royal de Bucarest, transforme en ambulance: la reine Marie au cheve Creator: Unknown
Les revers Roumains ; au Palais Royal de Bucarest, transforme en ambulance: la reine Marie au chevet des blesses, 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919

Le Premier Né, 1840. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Premier Ne, 1840. The First Born. Le fait est que l'enfant n'est pas mal. - Comment donc M'sieur! c'est-a-dire que c'est un Cherubin, un amour...Ah! dame

"La Guerre a L'Allemande"; Le lendamain de l'explosion, dans salle voisine et exactement... 1918
"La Guerre a L'Allemande"; Le lendamain de l'explosion, dans salle voisine et exactement semblable, les eleves sages-femmes et les infirmieres continuent leurs soins aux meres et

"La Guerre a L'Allemande"; Bien jeune victime: un nourrisson blesse au bras gauche, 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

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"Nurse: A Beacon of Compassion and Care" In the realm of healthcare, one name stands out as a symbol of unwavering dedication and selflessness - Mary Seacole. Her portrait from the iconic production "Ice Cold In Alex" (1958) captures her indomitable spirit alongside Anthony Quayle, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, and Harry Andrews. As we delve into the history of nursing, silhouettes of World War I soldiers remind us of the pivotal role nurses played in providing medical care to wounded heroes. Florence Nightingale, known as "The Lady With The Lamp, " shines brightly in our collective memory. Her tireless efforts during the Crimean War revolutionized nursing practices and saved countless lives. Across continents, even in modern times like Florida's Sarasota County with its striking Unconditional Surrender statue by Seward Johnson (Picture No. 10745711), nurses continue to embody Florence Nightingale's legacy. Looking back further into history reveals St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the 18th century (PSCI2A-00066). It serves as a testament to how far nursing has come since then - evolving from humble beginnings to becoming an essential pillar within healthcare systems worldwide. The emblematic Red Cross nurse represents not only emergency response but also compassion amidst chaos. Even children learn about this noble profession through playacting; a girl playing nurse exemplifies their innate understanding of caregiving at an early age. As we reflect on these images and stories that span centuries, it becomes clear that they are more than just caregivers; they are beacons of hope for those who find themselves vulnerable or suffering. From historical figures like Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale to everyday heroes working tirelessly today – nurses epitomize humanity's capacity for empathy and healing. Let us celebrate these extraordinary individuals who dedicate their lives to easing pain, comforting souls, and restoring health.