Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago records, 1883-1976
Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center
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Main entry: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago
Title: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago records, 1883-1976
Inclusive dates: 1883-1976
Size: 21 boxes
Accession numbers: M1972.0050; M1976.0019.
Provenance statement:
Gift of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago in 1972 and 1976
This finding aid includes:
Description of the collection,
Description of some related materials,
List of online catalog headings,
Container
list of box numbers and titles.
Description of the collection:
Miscellaneous
correspondence, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings, annual reports, statistical
data, etc. of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. Correspondence is chiefly
with donors (1903-1949, 1957), who included many socially prominent Chicagoans;
plus case study data in Patient Service, Nursing Substation & Coordinated
Home Care Program reports, 1962-1968. Also, many items on the
Mayor's City-County Polio Planning Committee (1956); a VMA 75th anniversary
scrapbook; and Society for Ethical Culture correspondence, 1883-1887.
Also present is a paper on Lea Demarest Taylor, 1883-1968, and in box 16, folder 2, there is a Masters thesis on the "History of Public Health Nursing in Chicago, 1883-1920," by Helen Lyons (University of Chicago, 1947).
Description of some
related materials:
Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago photograph collection (1980.0089).
List of online
catalog headings:
The following headings were placed in the online catalog record for this collection:
Main entry: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago.
Subject headings:
Taylor, Lea Demarest, 1883-
Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago.
Society for Ethical Culture (Chicago, Ill.)
Nurses--Illinois--Chicago.
Public health--Illinois--Chicago.
Visiting nurses--Illinois--Chicago.
Women in social service--Illinois--Chicago--Societies and clubs.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
Form/genre headings:
Scrapbooks.
Statistics.
Theses.
Added entries:
Lyons, Helen. History of Public Health Nursing in Chicago, 1883-1920.
Society for Ethical Culture (Chicago, Ill.)
United States--Illinois--Cook County-Chicago.
Container list of box numbers and titles:
Box 1 Society for Ethical Culture correspondence
1883-1887; VNAC correspondence and materials 1890-1923
Box 2 VNAC correspondence 1924-1931
Box 3 VNAC correspondence 1932-1943
Box 4 VNAC correspondence 1944-1956
Box 5 VNAC correspondence 1957-1959
Box 6 VNAC
correspondence 1960-1961
Box 7 VNAC correspondence 1962-1964 February
Box 8 VNAC correspondence 1964 March-1964
December
Box 9 VNAC correspondence 1965
Box 10 VNAC correspondence 1966-1968; undated
Box 11 Board of Directors 1954, 1959-1963
Box 12 Bulletins 1958
Box 12a Annual reports 1941-1967
Box 13 VNAC Coordinated Home Care Program for
Chicago 1967 A-G
Box 14 VNAC Coordinated Home Care Program for
Chicago 1967 H-N
Box 15 VNAC Coordinated Home Care Program for
Chicago 1967 O-Z
Box 16 VNAC history; anniversary 50th, 70th, 75th,
80th
Box 17 Anniversary 85th; announcements and
invitations; annual reports 1911, 1912, 1949; annual meetings 1940-1970;
associations other 1966-1970; awards 1956, 1965; biographies and memorials;
bulletins 1922-1933; cartoon; charter and by-laws 1890-1957; committee reports
1928-1937; Coordinated Home Care Program 1965-1969
Box 18 Health papers; historical newspapers 1861,
1909, 1945; office procedures 1973; open house 1963; organization rules and
objectives 1891-1969; poems; proclamations 1961, 1964; publications 1840-1972;
publicity 1928-1975
Box 19 Publicity newsclippings
1949-1976
Box 20 VNAC engraving plates
Box 21 Newspapers; newsletters; scrapbooks, etc. (and
engraving plates?)
Folder of oversize clippings: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago.
stored in Oversize collections: Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago.