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This exhibit from the National Library of Medicine presents a selection of historic postcards that span a century of nursing imagery and investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now.

University of Pennsylvania Nursing Students in the 1960's

Remembering the dedicated people who nurse and care for the sick. Nurses Week May

Some time ago, I found a blue striped nursing uniform from 1921 belonging to a Miss Maude Schurr of Philadelphia. When my hubby noticed the stripes he made a racy comment about candystripers (one I can't mention here!). I shushed him of course but it turned out he was on the right. track The gradual change to sterile white by the 1940s saw the stripes passed on to the hospital aids. The first actual nurse uniform was introduced circa 1860 and was indeed a far cry from the scrubs of today…

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Vintage nurse card

This exhibit from the National Library of Medicine presents a selection of historic postcards that span a century of nursing imagery and investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now.

A Navy nurse takes the pulse (right) of a male patient in a U.S. Naval hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, circa 1955.