Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago photograph collection,
1895-1973
Finding Aid for the Collection at the Chicago History Museum, Research Center
By Susan Tamulonis,
1987; rev. 2004; rev. by D. Rinder, 2008
© Copyright 2008, Chicago Historical Society, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614-6038
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Title: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago
photograph collection [graphic]
Main entry: Visiting Nurse
Association of Chicago
Inclusive dates: ca.
1895-1973, bulk 1910-1950
Size:
Call #: 1980.0089 PPL:
6 albums (429 photographic prints) ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
329 photographic prints :
b&w ; 40 x 50 cm. (16 x 18 in.) or smaller.
2 photographic prints :
b&w ; 29 x 50 cm. (12 x 20 in.) or smaller.
1 photograph :
cabinet card ; 11 x 17 cm. (4 1/2 x 7 in.)
Call #: 1980.0089 PCLF-0002:
4 photoprints :
col. ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller.
Call #:1980.0089 PCT-0003-0005:
237 transparencies :
col. ; 35 mm. and 25 mm.
Call #: 1980.0089 PLS-0004-0014:
122 transparencies :
b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
121 transparencies :
lantern slide ; 9 x 11 cm. (4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Call #: 1980.0089 PPN-0002:
4 negatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
Call #: 1980.0089 CPN-0001:
3 negatives : col.
; 9 x 9 cm. (3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Call #: 1980.0089 PNG:
1
folder of non-graphic material.
Accession #: 1980.0089;
1985.0469 (combined under 1980 accession)
Restriction: To consult lantern slides,
negatives or color materials in the Research Center it is necessary to make an
advance appointment (email: Research@chicagohistory.org).
Credit
photographer. Some photoprints copyrighted.
Description of the collection:
Visual
materials relating to the VNA of Chicago, which was organized in1889 and
chartered the following year.
Shows child and adult patients from varied ethnic backgrounds receiving health
treatments and instruction in their homes during themid-1890s through the
1950s; single and group portraits of the nursing staff and office personnel;
some views of the nurses at their substations; unidentified neighborhood scenes
taken to document unsanitary conditions; turn-of-the-century shots of domestic
interiors suggesting hygienic ignorance and level of poverty; albums showing
treatment procedures, braces, and other equipment mainly for poliomyletis. Most transparency subjects are not found in
other media. Some subjects are found in both photoprints and lantern slides.
Related materials at Chicago History
Museum, Research Center, include the Visiting Nurse Association records.
Some lantern slides also available
in copy negatives through the Rights and Reproductions Dept. at Chicago History
Museum: ICHI 03916-10931.
Gift
of the Visiting Nurses Association of Chicago (1980.0089; 1985.0469).
List of online catalog headings:
Foley, Edna L., d. 1943.
Fullmer, Harriet, 1860-1952.
Higginson, Emily (Emily Wakem)
Westphal, Mary Elizabeth, 1877?-1962.
Visiting
Nurse Association of Chicago.
African
Americans children--Illinois--Chicago.
African
Americans--Work--Illinois--Chicago.
African
American women--Illinois--Chicago.
Older
people--Health & welfare--Illinois--Chicago.
Bedrooms--Illinois--Chicago.
Birth defects--Illinois--Chicago.
Blind
persons--Illinois--Chicago.
Children--Health &
welfare--Illinois--Chicago.
Children
& adults--Illinois--Chicago.
Domestic
life--Illinois--Chicago.
Dwellings--Illinois--Chicago.
Ethnic groups--Illinois--Chicago.
Families--Illinois--Chicago.
People
with disabilities--Health & hygiene--Illinois--Chicago.
Health
care--Illinois--Chicago.
Hispanic Americans--Health &
welfare--Illinois--Chicago.
Housing--Illinois--Chicago.
Interiors--Illinois--Chicago.
Kitchens--Illinois--Chicago.
Laboring classes--Illinois--Chicago.
Living rooms--Illinois--Chicago.
Medical
equipment--Illinois--Chicago.
Medicine--Illinois--Chicago.
Mothers
& children--Illinois--Chicago.
Nursing--Illinois--Chicago.
Orthopedic braces--Illinois--Chicago.
Poliomyelitis--Illinois--Chicago.
Polish Americans--Health &
welfare--Illinois--Chicago.
Sick
persons--Illinois--Chicago.
Tenement houses--Illinois--Chicago.
Uniforms--Illinois--Chicago.
Women--Work--Illinois--Chicago.
Visiting nurses--Illinois--Chicago.
Occupations--Illinois--Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)--Population.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
United States--Illinois--Cook County--Chicago.
Ephemera.
Photograph albums.
Snapshots.
Cabinet
card photographs.
Contact sheets..
Dye coupler transparencies.
Film negatives.
Halftone
photomechanical prints.
Lantern slides.
Photographic prints--Color.
Silver gelatin prints.
Container list of box and folder numbers and titles:
Call #: 1980.0089 PPL
Box 1 Nursing
staff
1 Nurses-individual portraits
2 Nurses-group portraits
3 Nurses in the field
Box 2 Patients
1 Patients-child and maternal care
2 Patients-child and maternal care
3 Patients-adult care
4 Patients-adult care
Box 3 Neighborhoods; Equipment
1 Neighborhood scenes
2 Objects, equipment, exhibits, city map
with VNA stations
3 Contact sheets (patients, neighborhoods,
etc.-most printed); two half-tone double-sided pages of patient care in homes,
ca. 1900; cartoon "Heartwarmers, the Visiting
Nurse", 1953 for the Chicago Daily News.
Box 4 Albums
1 Orthopedic Treatment Centers
2
Infantile [Paralysis?] General Patients
3 Home Therapy Devices for Polio
4 General Care of Polio, 1930s
Box 5 Albums
1 Therapy Treatment of Polio, Injury, and
Congenitally Deformed Patients
2 Pictures of Therapy for Polio, Injured,
and Congenitally Deformed Victims, 1928-34
Box 6 Nursing
staff
1 Christmas Staff Party, 1908; 34th annual
meeting group portrait, 1924; VNA nursing staff, 1929
2 VNA Nursing Staff group portraits, 1940
3 VNA Nursing Staff, 1950; Nursing Staff
portrait, cover for the Annual Report, 1954; Mary Westphal
and Anna Lobbes, 1954
Call #: 1980.0089 PFL Oversize flat photograph
1
Nursing Staff group portrait, undated (1940s?)
Call #: 1980.0089 PCT0003-0005 Slides and transparencies
3 Slides, 1966:
Medicare Sessions
Illinois Nurses Week, March
Illinois Nurses Association Convention,
October
Christmas Party
Helping Hands Contest, Crusade of Mercy
Easter Baskets for Naperville patients
Home Care Coordinators
Junior Board Night Group "Treasure
Bags"
Ethel Motley's Retirement
Slides, 1967:
Open House
Anna Lobbes
Retirement Tea
Telephone Pioneers
Nurse Ellpas
Breakfast
Staff Conferences
District Office Bulletin Boards
CHCP Conference
SNAI Conference
Speech Therapy Seminar
FDA Exhibit
Medicare Department Staff
Office Personnel
Junior Board Night Group Easter Egg Party
Christmas Party
4 Slides, 1968:
CHCP Wilkie Meyer's Farewell
Coordinators
Nursing Audit Group
Mrs. Oakes pins Gloria Taylor
20 Year Club
Office Personnel
Mary Tomasiewicz
Farewell Party
Valentine Bouquet from Mrs. Agar
Slides, 1970:
Anna Petersen's Retirement Dinner
Slides, Undated
Junior Board Table Decorations
Office personnel
Reception, unidentified
Nurses, unidentified
Meeting or Open House
Nurse Elinor Carne with child patient
Unidentified nurse with two child patients
5 Transparency,
8x10 in.
Cartoon: "Heartwarmers
the Visiting Nurse", 1953, for Chicago Daily News
Call #: 1980.0089 PCLF 0002 Color photoprints
2 Nurse Hill with children on crutches
Martin A. Poole with nurses and friends,
1969
Unidentified adult patient with nurse
Call #: 1980.0089 PPN0002 B&W negatives
2 Group of nurses for Annual Report, 1954
Mary E. Westphal
Call #: 1980.0089 PCN0001 Color negatives
1 Nurse Hill with children on crutches
Call #: 1908.0089 PLS0004-0014 Lantern slides
Box 1-4
Nurses-portraits
Box 2-3, 5-6
Patients-adult care
Box 4-8, 7-11
Patients-child and maternity care
Box 9-10 12-13
Neighborhood Scenes
Box 11, 14
Slides with text:[services
the VNA performs]
List of
images used in exhibition: Pioneers of Public Health
21077: VNA nurses on street, ready to go.
Unnumbered: famous 1912 shot of nurse
w/three children
"Approach shots"
21074: Geese
21075: Nurse in alley
21076: Muddy street scene 21079: Flowers
21089: Man w/dog
No #: Scene w/much hanging wash
"Kids outside"
21071: Many kids (b.4)
21078: Kids at top of steps
21081: 3 Black kids
21082: Nurse w/kids on steps
No #: Girl w/leg brace and doll
"Inside-Black families"
21083: Mom in bed/baby washed
21092: Woman having foot treated
21072: nurse & washerwoman
21093: Nurse Bullock
21091: Granny w/two babes in lap
Subs: Hammock shown in b.8
"Inside-Ethnic"
21094: Sick & well twins
21086: Piece work
21085: Boy w/infected knee
21088: Cardiac lady?
21087: Baby in tub w/audience
No #: Depressed lady in bed
18306: Mother in bed/4 sons
18307: Middle-aged nurse caring for baby
(1923)
Subs: Girl w/brace & doll (cracked)
Nurse dressing baby on table (b.7)
No #.: Main baby tent photo (in Infant
Welfare Coll.)
03931: Daily News image of tent interior
Album in VNA box 5: Three pages (removed
5/25):
1) "Walker in use--gives pt...."
2) "Neglected case of polio...."
3) "Donald, victim of auto
accident."
21073: 1923 Hydrotherapy