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BOSTON UNIVERSITY HOWARD GOTLIEB ARCHIEVAL RESEARCH CENTER
The Martha Rogers collection came to the History of Nursing Archives (HNA)in 1985 after many years of cajoling by the HNA founder Ms. Mary Ann Garrigan and her colleagues. The materials housed within the Collection totals ten boxes and two packages filled with her numerous manuscripts,letters, files, printed materials, and reports chronicling Rogers'career and theories. Established in 1966 with help from a United States Public Health Service grant and the support of the Boston University School of Nursing, the History of Nursing Archives contains the personal and professional papers of nursing leaders; records of the schools of nursing; public health and professional nursing organizations; histories of various American and foreign schools of nursing, including early textbooks; as well as a very extensive book collection. These manuscripts and books document the evolution and contribution of the nursing profession in the fields of public health and military history. Contained within the Archives are over 200 letters dating from 1851 to 1900 from Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. Within the book collection are first editions of her writings, including A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army During the Late War with Russia, which was published anonymously in 1859. Also inlcuded is a sixpence edition of Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes signed by Nightingale with a letter dated September 29, 1869. A few other nursing leaders whose papers constitute the Archives are Florence Blanchfield (1884-1971), Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps during World War II; Lucile Petry Leone, Director of the United States Cadet Nursing Corps during World War II and the first nurse Assistant Surgeon General of the United States; Virginia Henderson, America's first trained nurse; Jessie M. Scott, Director of the Division of Nurses of the United States Public Health Service; Margaret G. Arnstein, professor of public health nursing and Dean of Yale University School of Nursing; Theresa Wolfson, an economic consultant for the American Nurses Association; Joyce Clifford, Executive Director for Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership; and Martha Rogers, theorist and founder of the Science of Unitary Human Beings. These are merely a few collections in the History of Nursing Archives. Anyone wishing further information or to pursue research on any of these collections should send queries to:
Diane Gallagher, Nursing Archivist For a list of Nursing Individuals Collected by the Center or Nursing Organizations. |
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