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wa00009. Nurses and Nursing Education

 Record Group
Identifier: wa00009

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Neta Andrews papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0586
Scope and Contents The Neta Andrews papers date from 1919 to 1922 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The papers primarily provide information regarding her nursing career. The correspondence consists of her acceptance into the Red Cross and a pin that was sent with the letter of congratulations. The medical literature consists of two instructional booklets about pregnancy and effective delivery practices, and an Army hospital newsletter, The Caduceus. A photograph album that apparently belonged to classmate Kay Myer depicts candid photographs of nursing students with patients at Fort Sam Houston in 1921. It also includes photographs of Neta Andrews at her Army School of Nursing Graduation in 1921 An Army Red Cross yearbook gives details on individual army nurses in 1921 as well as photographs and information on various Army hospital bases throughout the United States in that same year. The yearbook includes information about Army bases in Fort Dodge and Des Moines, Iowa and brief descriptions of Army...
Dates: 1919-1922

Ruth Hager Cousin papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0522
Abstract

Trained as a nurse between 1917 and 1920, and worked as a school nurse in Iowa Falls and Marshalltown, Iowa from 1931 to 1965.

Dates: 1914-1985

Kay Hata papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0766
Abstract

Oral history. Japanese-American nurse who was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

Dates: 1998

Ruth Ryan Jenkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1185
Abstract

Scrapbook detailing a woman’s time in nursing school at St. Luke’s Hospital in Davenport, Iowa throughout the 1930s.

Dates: 1935-1938

Esther Snitker Bechtel papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1157
Abstract

Class notes and educational materials from a State University of Iowa School of Nursing student.

Dates: 1938-1940

Gusti Kollman papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA1030
Abstract

Jewish immigrant who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and settled in Mount Vernon, Iowa

Dates: 1910-2007

Myrtle Kitchell Aydelotte papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0036
Abstract

Professor of nursing,1957-1976, dean of the College of Nursing, 1949-1957, and director of nursing for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics,1968-1976.



Arrangement

The 2004 accession is shelved in boxes 47-50.The total number of boxes in the collection is 52.

Dates: 1934-2001

Evelyn Crary Bacon papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0012
Abstract

Teacher, decorated veteran nurse and pioneer in the field of nursing education, Bacon served as a captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Dates: 1917-2000

Ruth Salzmann Becker papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0123
Abstract

Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.

Dates: 1858-2012

Marjorie Jean Bertalot Block papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0385
Abstract

My Story describes Block's training as a nurse, family life, her employment off and on the farm, and her activities in Benton County, Iowa.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1942-1998

Lucille Ketchum Carter papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0131
Abstract

1936 graduate of the School of Nursing at the State University of Iowa who was active in Democratic politics and whose correspondence includes round robin letters.

Dates: 1936-2008

Lois Plummer Hartline papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA1271
Abstract

Nursing student at University of Iowa College of Nursing in the 1950s

Dates: 2021

University of Iowa College of Nursing records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0511
Abstract

The history of nursing education at Iowa.

Dates: 1887-2005

Mavis Stoner papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0428
Abstract

Newspaper articles.



Arrangement

One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1918-1998

Cora Call Whitley papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0154
Abstract

Clubwoman and conservationist involved in the Council of National Defense Women's Committee during World War I.

Dates: 1916-1937

Eva Erickson papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0922
Abstract

Nurse adminstrator and professor, the daughter of Finnish immigrants.

Dates: 1925-2003

Barbara M. Calderon papers

 Collection — Folder 1: Series 1
Identifier: IWA0247
Abstract

Nursing administrator and first African-American public health nurse in Iowa.



Arrangement

Two folders, shelved in SCVF.

Dates: 1945-1968

Des Moines BirthPlace records

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0195
Abstract

The first licensed out-of-hospital birth center in Iowa, specializing in nurse-midwifery.

Dates: 1979-2000

Geraldene Felton papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0330
Abstract

Professor and former dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing.



Arrangement

Two books that mention Felton and her achievements in nursing are filed in the printed work collection of the Iowa Women's Archives: Complete in All Its Parts: Nursing Education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1998 by Lee Anderson and Kathy Penningroth (1998) and The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1864-1994 by M. Elizabeth Carnegie (1995).

Dates: 1951-2004

Mary Patricia Donahue papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0512
Abstract

Nurse educator and scholar.

Dates: 1872-2006