Nurse Collection (#16)

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

Nurse and Patient
Nurse and her little patient at Childrens hospital, Stockholm, 1940s. Date: 1940s

Ayah - Indian Nursemaid looking after a rather pampered little baby in a very elegant pram. Date: circa 1910s

Group photo, Dr Berrys Serbian Mission
A group photograph of Austrian prisoners and their nurses at Dr James Berrys Serbian Mission, a Red Cross Unit in Serbia during the First World War

Yvonne Sarcey-Brisson
YVONNE SARCEY-BRISSON French journalist, daughter of Francisque Sarcey and wife of Adolphe Brisson. As a nurse during World War One. Date: 1869 - 1950

Dog with Broken Leg
This dog, here with his nurse, broke his leg and the broken bones were mended with the aid of a metal pin. When the bandages come off he will be able to use his leg as before. Date: late 1960s

Cat on Operating Table
A young veterinary nurse, Elizabeth Greaves, 17, bandages the leg of an unconscious cat, which has just had an operation to remove a tumour from its leg Date: late 1960s

ALASKA PIONEER WOMAN
A modern Pioneer woman, a kind of American District Nurse, who looks after kids whose parents are working, tests simple illness and gives advice about kids, Alaska, USA Date: 1930s

Adoption Society Bath
A National Adoption Society little girls helps a nurse to give her younger brother a bath. Date: 1930s

Weighing Baby
A nurse weighing a baby in a wicker basket on a set of weighing scales. Date: 1930s

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France, WW1
Part of Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, northern France, during the First World War. Showing the graves of Staff Nurses A M Clinie and N M McCrie, and VADs D K Coles ands Thompson

Wounded man in street, Malines, Belgium, WW1
Tending a wounded man in the street at Malines, Belgium, during the retreat to Antwerp, First World War. He is carried by soldiers, under the supervision of a nurse. Date: 1 September 1914

Wounded Austrian soldiers and their nurses, WW1
Wounded Austrian soldiers and their nurses during the First World War. They are in a corridor of the University of Vienna, which has been converted into a hospital ward. Date: 1914

People dancing the maypole round Eros in Piccadilly
A group of happy people from different walks of life dancing the maypole round the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus, London. Date: 1951

Recruitment poster, Train to Win, featuring a woman in nurses uniform. Apply to the Employment Exchange, government training schemes with paid allowances. Aimed specifically at women. 1940s

British Nurse off to the Western Front
Our Girls - Answering the Call A Young British girl sets out across the English Channel en route to the horrors of the Western Front

Second World War nurse
Unidentified woman in what looks like a makeshift nursing uniform, WWII. c.1945

Woman in nurses uniform
A woman in a nurses uniform. circa 1940s

George V and Queen Mary visiting a hospital
King George V and Queen Mary with others, visiting a hospital during the First World War. Nurses stand in line on the left. circa 1916-1918

Queen Mary visiting a Red Cross hospital at Netley
Queen Mary visiting the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, near Southampton, expanded and used by the Red Cross during the First World War. With her were King George V and Princess Mary

The infant Princess Elizabeth with her nurse
" Nannie" to the little Princess Elizabeth was one Mrs Knight. They are photographed around the time of the birth of Princess Margaret Rose. 1930

WWI nurse and patient by George Ranstead
Drawing depicting a World War I nurse appearing to be lectured by a patient wearing a suit and slippers, although maybe hes just enthusiastically conveying his appreciation

Mary Churchill supporting Russian flag day, 1944
Miss Mary Churchill, the youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, supporting her mothers Russian flag day, and bought her emblem from Nurse Glover of University College London Hospital. 1944

Women War Work - WWI
A nurse cares for a wounded soldier - WWI. A card series examining the role women played during the war. Doing their Date: circa 1916

Baby Incubators - Crystal Palace - Child Life Section Date: circa 1908

Nurse / New Baby 1930S
A nurse writes down the details of a new born baby Date: 1930s

French Nurses 1930S
A matron and a nurse attending to bedridden patients in one of the wards of the Marie Curie Hospital, Paris, France. Date: early 1930s

Hospital Meals
The Senior Nurse gets the plates ready whilst the junior nurses begin to dish up a meal from metal tureens at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, England. Date: 1960s

District Nurse / 1893
The district nurse Date: 1893

Premature Presents
Presents prematurely discovered by small boy, to his nurses dismay Date: circa 1890

Wet-Nurse with Straw
Hygiene in the nursery : a French child imbibes its wet-nurses milk through a straw... Date: 1907

Hospital Ward / 1888
A nurse carries a cup of tea to a patient in the one of the wards in London Hospital, Whitechapel Date: 1888

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