Nurse Collection (#15)

Voluntary First Aid Road Accident Service - No Fees Accepted : A nurse gives roadside first aid to a female motorist at the scene of a car accident. Date: early 1930s

Roadside First Aid
A voluntary nurse gives roadside fist aid to a female motorist at the scene of an accident. Date: early 1930s

Doctor and Nurse
A doctor sits at his desk taking an appointment over the phone with a nurse looking at it over his shoulder. Date: late 1960s

Dog Baby and Nurse
Two of Mrs. L. Goodwins German Shepherd dogs (Alsatians), at Margate, Kent, England, dressed up as a nanny pushing a baby in a pram! Date: early 1930s

Carols for Sick Child
A group of little girl patients with their nurse, singing Christmas carols to to a sick baby in its cot. Date: early 1930s

Hospital Reading Lesson
Four little girls enjoying a reading lesson in hospital, with their nurse doubling up as a teacher. Date: early 1930s

Hospital Entertainment
Sick little girls playing with dolls in the childrens ward, supervised by a kindly nurse. Behind them are babies in cots and a roaring fire. Date: early 1930s

The Story of Cruel Joseph - Joseph Chamberlain
The Story of Cruel Joseph. Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) as the political menace, making trouble for Tories and Radicals

Injured colonial French Soldier (WW1) cared for by nurse
WW1 - An injured colonial French Soldier (Senegalese?) cared for by a pretty nurse. Date: circa 1917

A recuperating wounded WW1 soldier gets his comeuppance - initial delights at the idea of a massage from nurse on the Monday turns into stark realisation tat this might not be quite so pleasurable

WW1 era - Comic Postcard - On Neutral Ground - a young boy stands with flag aloft, surrounded by his defenders as the ominous spectre of Nanny approaches... Date: circa 1916

Nurses from Great Ormond Street Hospital examine bomb
Nurses from The Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital examine fragments from the bomb which struck the building but (thankfully) caused no loss of life - September, 1940

HRH Princess Anne (as a baby) with a nursemaid
Anne, Princess Royal (1950-) (as a baby) pictured with a nursemaid. Date: circa 1950

Indian Nursemaid with perambulator - Pune, India
Indian Nursemaid for a rich European family wheeling a very fine perambulator at Pune, formerly known as Poona (now the eighth largest metropolis in India)

Childrens Playroom - NYK Liner
Childrens Playroom aboard a ship of the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line). Everything (available) to appeal to the young travellers Date: circa 1920s

French President Fallieres visits Frecnh Hospital, London
French President Clement Armand Fallieres (1841-1931) visits the French Hospital, London at the time of the Franco-British Exhibition (which opened on 26th May 1908). Date: 1908

Billiards Illustrated - Tucked Up - a handsome male patient is grateful for the care and attention provided by a pretty young nurse, tending to his needs. Date: circa 1903

Malta - One of the Convalescent Camps - WWI. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Malta - St Patricks Convalescent Camp - WWI
Malta - St Patricks Convalescent Camp. The caption (written by a soldier recoving at the camp) detais various tents as the Y.M.C.A, the Cookhouse and the Surgical Ward

Malta - Ghain Tuffieha Camp Hospital - WWI
Malta - Ghain Tuffieha Camp Hospital (St Peters Camp). Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Wounded soldier dictates a letter to his Mother, aided by a kindly member of the nursing team. Date: 1904

Nurse cradling baby
Nurse holding a small baby in her arms c. 1910

Nurses with two little girls
Two little girls sit on the lap of their nurse, another nurse standing behind them. c. 1910

Nurse holding an infant c. 1910

A British Nurse
A British nurse from the early twentieth-century. c. 1910

Nurse
People You See. Nurse. From Teddy Bear (9 September 1961)

Tales from Many Lands: Breakfast for Anita. From Treasure no. 252 (11 November 1967)

Young Vets

Nurses Serving Food
A nurse serves food in a hospital ward - it seems to be a plate of various mashed food. Date: 1950s

Medical Nurses
A nurse with a young baby. Date: early 20th century

Nurse and patient in a Red Cross convalescent home
A nurse and a patient in a Red Cross convalescent home in Little Missenden, Bucks

Red Cross convalescent home, Little Missenden, Bucks
Two members of staff outside a Red Cross convalescent home in Little Missenden, Bucks

Russian doctor and nurse attending to a man with a Russian battleship for a head lying in bed. Date 1904

Russian general, possibly meant to be A. N. Kuropatkin, holdi
Russian general, possibly meant to be A.N. Kuropatkin, holdi

Nurse the baby Your protection against trouble : Inform yourself through the Health Bureau publications and consult your doctor

The lady with the lamp (Miss Nightingale at Scutari, 1854). Florence Nightingale holding lamp in front of man. Date 1891

Wanted 25, 000 student nurses, US Student Nurse Reserve

Jimmie Chinquanana, 11 Hamilton Street, New York. In dark, inner room of his home, in the rear of their store. He is the ninth child, six of whom are dead. Father abused the wife; drinks

The angel of the hospital

Train to be a nurses aide Phone your boro Civilian Defense Volunteer Office. Poster encouraging women to become nurses aides for the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office

Cockatoo undergoing surgery
A Japanese cockatoo in the hands of a surgeon at the Animals Hospital, Pimlico, London. The bird suffered from the inconvenience of an abnormally long beak. (NB: this is not a dead parrot) circa 1911

European lady and family attended by an Ayah (Nurse). (Plate 17 of 20) Date: 1813

Two nurses with patient in hospital ward
Two nurses make sure a patient is comfortable in his bed in a hospital ward, possibly somewhere in East London. The patient is a convalescing policeman. Date: late 1960s

Two nurses with convalescing policemen
Two nurses enjoy a joke with a room full of convalescing policemen, possibly somewhere in East London. The men are laughing and smiling, while the nurses hand out cups of tea from a trolley

Princess Mary as a nurse
Princess Mary, only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, later the Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, as a nurse during her training at the Childrens Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London

The Census 1931
A scene at the Park Royal Hospital, Willesden, north west London, on the day of the 1931 census as a nurse makes sure that all the babies are recorded. Date: 26 April 1931

War Memorial Fund - Dog
A small dog dressed up as a nurse atop a Union Jack and next to a collecting tin for the Woolwich & District War Memorial Hospital Fund. Toby is never shunn d when asking! Date: early 20th century

Dog-Tor and Patient
One of Mrs. L. Goodwins (of All Saints Avenue, Kent, England) clever German Shepherd (Alsatian) dogs, playing nurse (or dog-tor) to another patient dog! Date: early 1930s

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