Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago records, 1883-1976

 

Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center

 

Chicago History Museum, Research Center

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Chicago, IL 60614-6038

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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.