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Western Kentucky University

2019

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Nurses and nursing

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Wittman, Dorothy M., 1917-2010 (Sc 3438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2019

Wittman, Dorothy M., 1917-2010 (Sc 3438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3438. Materials related to 2nd Lieutenant Dorothy M. Wittman’s service as a U.S. Army nurse with the 32nd Station Hospital during World War II. Includes a letter to her parents in Canal Fulton, Ohio, from Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky describing a review of the 98th Infantry Division; photographs of her and fellow nurses; a nurses roster; meal tickets; and a whimsical “Dishonorable Discharge” from the Army. Also includes a medical history of the 32nd Station Hospital Unit written by Chief Nurse Helen W. Brammer.


Mccallum, Elizabeth Elliott (Cherry), 1890-1985 (Sc 3355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

Mccallum, Elizabeth Elliott (Cherry), 1890-1985 (Sc 3355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3355. Typescripted account of Elizabeth (Cherry) McCallum’s experiences after she entered nursing school in 1913 in Kentucky. She subsequently served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I and as superintendent of nurses at Louisville Children’s Hospital. Includes her note about writing the piece, and her short article about rural life, published in the (Louisville) Courier-Journal.