Nursing (miscellaneous)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2024.36
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Nursing (miscellaneous)
Scope and content: A variety of nursing materials, including photographs and certificates. Many documents about the 175th anniversary of Miss Nightingale’s birth exhibition in 1995, old nursing certificates, newspaper clippings, and many photographs and postcards from World War One. Contents: a Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses’ agreement signed by Mary Best (1913); a second blank copy; a certificate of admission to The College of Nursing Ltd., London, for Mary Best (1919); a notice of leave; a Mail on Sunday clipping of Royal Nurses (1984); a card photograph of a school or hospital of nurses (early 20th or late 19th century); a typescript letter to Mary Ward surrounding her nursing application (1915); a patient property report form from Pauline Ballentine (1984); a letter from Tom Wylie concerning information on Amy Robb (1987); a photocopy of an online job description for Nursing Auxiliary; a typescript job description for a care assistant (1986); magazine pages on Sally Daniell visiting Cambridge Military Hospital (1984); a newspaper story on handing a cheque to Miss Dundas, senior nursing officer; an informational booklet on ‘The General Nursing Council for England and Wales (1974); a certificate of registration of a registered nurse of Jane McGahan (1960); a copy of the Sunday Times Good Hospital Guide; information notes on Sarah Amelia Robb, an UVF nurse from 1912/13 (1984); miscellaneous notes; a photocopy of Northern Ireland Council for Nurses and Midwives Certificate of Registration as a registered nurse; a card from Dunlop to Tom Wylie thanking him for his assistance with a festival (1987); a small note concerning a Mrs. Johnston phoning on information on Miss Robb (1986); minutes of a meeting with the Armagh County Museum Council (Sep. 1985); a typescript on the Florence Nightingale Foundation’s 60 years; a magazine clipping on Nurse Nightingale (1987); a photocopied chapter on “Organised Labour” from Nursing, Midwifery, and Health; a handbook for the information and guidance of patients, stamped Nuffield House; two blank certificates of proficiency for Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast; photocopies of certificates for nurses in the late 19th century; correspondence to Tom Wylie concerning nursing badges and photocopies (1994); letters to Wylie concerning the 175th anniversary of Miss Nightingale’s birth exhibition (1994); photocopies of letters to Miss Catherwood, Ms. Sylvia Frawley, and Miss Anne [?] concerning the exhibition (1995); a letter of a leave of absence to Mary Best (1916); a certificate of demobilisation of Mary Best (Apr. 1919); a certificate of registration of a registered nurse (1923); a certificate of admission to the Roll for General Nurses for Rosanna Maria Lewandowski (1975); a certificate of registration as a male nurse for Thomas Heaslip (1961); lists of equipment returned from Belfast (1940s); a certificate of enrolment as a midwife for Jane McGahan (1931); a newspaper clipping of a nurse receiving an R.M.N. badge (1984); diagrams about badges; miscellaneous newspaper clippings; a certificate of completion of ontological nursing for R. Lewandowski (1977); dozens of black and white photographs of nursing badges; photocopied guides on nursing badges; photographs of parades on Chichester Street, Belfast Main Street and around Belfast City Hall (early 20th century); photographs of nurses receiving the Nightingale lamp award (1980/90s); modern photographs of museum nursing exhibitions; new prints of old photographs of nurses (labelled); a photograph of an old car in Coleraine (early 20th century); a photograph of Mollie Best as a nurse in France (1914–18); a postcard to Sister Janet from France (1917); a headshot of Sarah Webster; a holiday postcard from L. Walker; a postcard of the Royal Army Medical Corps at the casualty clearing station (1914–19); a postcard of Dolly from the Derby Royal Infirmary (1918–19); a postcard of the 9th battalion R.I.F. at Palace Barracks, Hollywood (1914); a photograph of three nurses; a photograph of nurses from the early 1960s; modern photograph prints of Miss Bostock c. 1903; old photographs of men playing tennis (pre-war 1900s); photographs of the nurses’ hut; a French postcard to a Sister from ‘camp 16’ in 1913; a labelled photograph of men; photographs from the Royal College of Nursing in 1996; a smaller photograph of nurses; three photographs of Violet Taylor Watts from the first world war, tending to a patient, at a camp, and a full shot of her; a photograph of ‘Emma’ (Oct. 1942); a postcard from Paris, presumably World War One; a postcard to Mr. Wylie (1995).