Nurses Collection (page 4)

Hospital ward during the American Civil war, 1862
1580710 Hospital ward during the American Civil war, 1862; (add.info.: Hospital ward during the American Civil war, showing nurses, doctors and patients. 1862); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Russian women hospital orderlies, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Russian women hospital orderlies, between c1915 and 1918. Russian hospital workers with soldiers during World War I.

U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service. U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917
U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. American Red Cross group including doctors and nurses en route to Romania to provide medical relief during World War I

U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service. U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917
U.S. doctors & nurses in Japan, 1917. American Red Cross group including doctors and nurses en route to Romania to provide medical relief during World War I

Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Queen Mary of Teck inspecting VADs in St. John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples, France on July 6th 1917 during World War I.

Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Red Cross nurses standing behind guns at an Army and Navy Tea Room during a fundraiser for the Actor's Fund.

Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. The interior of a military hospital car with nurses on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I.

A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Soldiers seated at a table in the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I

English Nurses entraining at London, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
English Nurses entraining at London, between c1914 and c1915. English nurses getting on a train at London, during World War I.

On "Red Cross", Sept 1914. Creator: Bain News Service. On "Red Cross", Sept 1914
On "Red Cross", Sept 1914. A group of nurses aboard the "Red Cross" bound for Europe in mid September 1914 at the beginning of World War I.

On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Creator: Bain News Service. On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept
On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Medical personnel aboard the "Red Cross" bound for Europe at the beginning of World War I in mid-September 1914.

A Journey into the Herzegovina: Insurgent Hospital at Grahovo, 1876. Creator: C.R
A Journey into the Herzegovina: Insurgent Hospital at Grahovo, 1876....the brave though barbarous mountaineers in the highlands of the Adriatic shore are deserving of English sympathy...the kindest

Les revers Roumains ; au Palais Royal de Bucarest, transforme en ambulance: la reine Marie au cheve Creator: Unknown
Les revers Roumains ; au Palais Royal de Bucarest, transforme en ambulance: la reine Marie au chevet des blesses, 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919

"La Guerre a L'Allemande"; Le lendamain de l'explosion, dans salle voisine et exactement... 1918
"La Guerre a L'Allemande"; Le lendamain de l'explosion, dans salle voisine et exactement semblable, les eleves sages-femmes et les infirmieres continuent leurs soins aux meres et

La Reine Marie de Roumanie au chevet des blesses, 1916. Creator: Unknown
La Reine Marie de Roumanie au chevet des blesses. 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Visiting Nurses Association, Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment, 1914... Mich. 1914. Creator: Unknown
Visiting Nurses Association, Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment, 1914, tents, Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich. 1914

Florence Crittenden I.E. Crittenton Home - Baby Exhibit, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Florence Crittenden I.E
Florence Crittenton Home - Baby Exhibit, 1914. Sign: For Rent by the Washington Loan & Trust Co.'. The first Florence Crittenton home, the Florence Night Mission

Antwerp Hospital Nuns. Creator: Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678)
Antwerp Hospital Nuns. Found in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

La bataille de la Somme; derriere le front Franco-Britannique: le salut aux blesses allies, 1916
La bataille de la Somme; derriere le front Franco-Britannique : le salut aux blesses allies. 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

'Matinales; le depart pour l'ambulance au petit jour, 1914. Creator: L Sabattier
'Matinales; le depart pour l'ambulance au petit jour, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

La promenade des blesses; Un verre de biere ou de lait au carrefour de la Croix de Noailles, 1916 Creator: Unknown
La promenade des blesses; Un verre de biere ou de lait au carrefour de la Croix de Noailles, en foret de Saint-Germain, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

20th Century Club, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. 20th Century Club, between 1910 and 1920
20th Century Club, between 1910 and 1920. Women in nurses uniforms with American Red Cross armbands

Senate Women, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Senate Women, between 1910 and 1920
Senate Women, between 1910 and 1920. Women in the US Senate wearing nurses uniforms with American Red Cross armbands

'The Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease; The Schachnar Ward -- The Morning Round, 18 Creator: Unknown
'The Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease; The Schachnar Ward -- The Morning Round, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42

Mrs. Blair's surgical dressing room, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mrs
Mrs. Blair's surgical dressing room, between 1910 and 1920. Women in Red Cross uniform preparing bandages. Posters on wall read: Gee!

The New Barrack-Hospital, at Scutari, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The New Barrack-Hospital, at Scutari, 1854. Crimean War. Letter to the British government from one of Florence Nightingale's nurses asking for supplies: [I] ask you at once to send us wine

Christmas Tree in the Childrens Ward at the London Hospital, Whitechapel, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Christmas Tree in the Childrens Ward at the London Hospital, Whitechapel, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Army, U.S, Hospital Car - Interior, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Army, U.S, Hospital Car - Interior, 1917
Army, U.S, Hospital Car - Interior, 1917. Soldier is stretchered on board

Boulogne Fishwomen carrying the Luggage of the Nurses for the East, 1854. Creator: William Thomas
Boulogne Fishwomen carrying the Luggage of the Nurses for the East, 1854. British nurses attached to Florence Nightingale's staff travel via France to the hospital at Scutari during the Crimean

Sisters of Charity (St. Benoit), in the new Hospital, at Pera, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sisters of Charity (St. Benoit), in the new Hospital, at Pera, 1854. French nuns nursing soldiers during the Crimean War, at Istanbul

H.B.M. Foot Guards encamped at Scutari - from a daguerreotype by Mr. Robertson, of Constan... 1854. Creator: Unknown
H.B.M. Foot Guards encamped at Scutari - from a daguerreotype by Mr. Robertson, of Constantinople, 1854. British troops at Scutari Barracks [in Turkey], during the Crimean War

The Rotunda in use as a war hospital. Oldway Mansion Paignton. Circa 1916

Professor N B Capon opens the Royal Liverpool Babies Hospital, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside, 19th February 1959. The first specially adapted mother and baby unit in the North West

Tsarina Alexandra nursing wounded soldiers, 1914, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Tsarina Alexandra nursing wounded soldiers, 1914, (c1920). Imperial Nurses with the Russian Red Cross: the Tsarina (seated on the right)

Paddington Station, c1940
A group of nurses wave off a train load of evacuees during World War 2. The mass evacuation of children from cities and towns, known as Operation Pied Piper, began in 1939

Prince Alexander of Serbia in Hyde Park, London
3786763 Prince Alexander of Serbia in Hyde Park, London; (add.info.: Prince Alexander of Serbia in Hyde Park, London during World War 1. April 1916. Accompanied by a Serbian nurse)

Chinese nurse with child - 1913
3782646 Chinese nurse with child - 1913; (add.info.: Chinese nurse with child - 1913, Hongkong. Caption: This picture shows how the Chinese Nurse is carrying a Child by slinging him on her back)

German Red Cross appeal - 1914
3784602 German Red Cross appeal - 1914; (add.info.: German Red Cross appeal - 1914. Depicts a Red Cross nurse surrounded by injured soldiers and veterans, tended to by other Red Cross workers)

Florence Nightingale
3782680 Florence Nightingale; (add.info.: Florence Nightingale in hospital at Scutari, during the Crimean War. Known as The Lady with the Lamp')

World War 1: Sisters of St Vincent tend to the injured
3786895 World War 1: Sisters of St Vincent tend to the injured; (add.info.: World War 1: Sisters of St Vincent tend to the injured during Battles of the Isonzo. Illustration by Adolf G. Doring)

Medical tent in India
3788899 Medical tent in India; (add.info.: Medical tent in India. Colourised photograph from early 20th century. British postcard.); Lebrecht History

Florence Nightingale
3785788 Florence Nightingale; (add.info.: Florence Nightingale in hospital at Scutari, during the Crimean War. Known as The Lady with the Lamp')

Florence Nightingale in the Hospital at Scutari
3783966 Florence Nightingale in the Hospital at Scutari; (add.info.: Crimean War: Florence Nightingale in the Hospital at Scutari)

George V meeting a hospital matron on the Western Front
3786045 George V meeting a hospital matron on the Western Front; (add.info.: George V meeting a hospital matron on the Western Front during World War 1)

King Edward VIIs visit to the London Hospital
3785267 King Edward VIIs visit to the London Hospital; (add.info.: King Edward VIIs visit to the London Hospital, June 1903. From illustration by F.H.Townsend of the period)

The Rose of No Mans Land, c.1770-1959 (print)
3672212 The Rose of No Mans Land, c.1770-1959 (print) by Leo Feist, Inc. (1897-1934); Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois

Comic postcard, nurse, baby and new father - girl or boy? Date: 20th century

Children at Willesden Workhouse / Central Middlesex Hospital
Young children and their nurses at the Acton Lane site of the Willesden Workhouse / Central Middlesex Hospital. Date: Date unknown

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"Nurses: The Silent Heroes of Compassion and Care" In the midst of the chaos and despair that engulfed the battlefields of World War I, a group of remarkable individuals emerged as beacons of hope. Silhouettes against a backdrop of war, these nurses dedicated their lives to tending to wounded soldiers with unwavering compassion. Picture No. 10745711 captures the essence of their selflessness - a young girl playing nurse, her innocence juxtaposed against the harsh realities she would soon witness. From Catford Evacuees to Whipps Cross Infirmary in Leytonstone, East London, these brave women transformed hospitals into sanctuaries for healing. St Bartholomews Hospital courtyard in London became a haven where pain was soothed and wounds were mended under their watchful eyes. Among them stood Mrs Congreve, wife and mother to recipients of Victoria Cross medals - symbols not only of valor but also resilience nurtured by her tender care. Albert Ward at St Marys Hospital in Paddington witnessed countless miracles unfold as nurses tirelessly worked day and night. Their dedication knew no bounds; even time itself was marked by their presence on Nurses Watch Surgery. Beyond borders, British nurses extended their hands across continents. They found solace amidst turmoil while retreating with the Serbian Army or providing medical aid during Calots spinal surgery in the 19th century - forever leaving an indelible mark on history. Among those who championed nursing's cause was The Duchess of Portland herself – an advocate for healthcare reform whose legacy continues to inspire generations today. These images remind us that behind every bandage lies immeasurable courage and boundless love for humanity. Nurses embody strength personified; they are our unsung heroes who navigate through darkness armed with empathy and expertise. Let us never forget these angels clad in white uniforms who have dedicated themselves to preserving life's most precious gift – health.