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In recognition of the incredible work being done by healthcare workers in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in honor of National Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2020), we have curated a collection that celebrates the long history of Presbyterian involvement in nursing, from training prospective nurses in Presbyterian schools and hospitals, to hands-on work with the sick and suffering. Featured image: Taegu Nurses' School dedication, June 1952.

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Title:
Tsingkiangpu General Hospital.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Mrs. Bell and women nurses. Tsingkiangpu General Hospital.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions--Archives., Bell, Virginia M., 1892-1974.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Missions, Medical--China., Hospitals--China., Women missionaries--China., Nurses--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281930
Title:
Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing records, 1933-1945.
Description:
Records for the School of Nursing at Sage Memorial Hospital, a Presbyterian mission hospital serving the Navajo people in Ganado, Arizona. Primarily concerns commencement ceremonies and graduates of the school. Includes correspondence, programs, postcards, clippings, and a sermon by Dr. Robert Freeman.
Creator:
Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.) (creator), Gladfelter, Katharine E (author), Salsbury, Clarence G., 1886-1980. (author), Scott, Anna M. (author), Freeman, Robert. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Health, Education and Welfare--Archives., Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Nursing--Study and teaching--Arizona--Ganado., Hospitals--Arizona--Ganado., Nurses--Arizona--Ganado., Home missions--Arizona--Ganado.
Geographic subjects:
Ganado (Ariz.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:179027
Title:
Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing correspondence and personnel records, 1941-1943.
Description:
Correspondence and personnel records for the School of Nursing at Sage Memorial Hospital, a Presbyterian mission hospital serving the Navajo people in Ganado, Arizona.
Creator:
Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.) (creator), Blake, Ella Lacy. (author), Refsland, Martha B. (author), Farver, Peru. (author)
Subject names:
Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.)--Archives., Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Nursing--Study and teaching--Arizona--Ganado., Hospitals--Arizona--Ganado., Nurses--Arizona--Ganado., Home missions--Arizona--Ganado.
Geographic subjects:
Ganado (Ariz.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:178988
Title:
Hamlin Memorial Sanatorium staff.
Description:
Nurse Afifa Saba and Dr. Naami Nucho (seated) with Hamlin Memorial Sanatorium staff.
Creator:
Syria Mission of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (publisher)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Syria Mission--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Syria Mission.
Topics:
Missions, Medical--Syria., Missionaries, Medical--Syria.
Geographic subjects:
Syria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:153451
Title:
Ambulance -- African style.
Description:
A litter strapped to two bicycles served as an ambulance for this Africa emergency patient being examined by Sister Marian Jan, a physician at Tanzania's Kowak Hospital, operated by the Maryknoll nuns.
Creator:
Maryknoll Sisters. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Jan, Marian, Sister., Kowak Hospital (Tanzania)
Topics:
Nuns--Tanzania., Women physicians--Tanzania., Missions, Medical--Tanzania.
Geographic subjects:
Tanzania.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151672
Title:
New Year's celebration in Thailand.
Description:
6. Led by student nurses, wet from New Year's water-throwing celebration, parade of towns-people, carrying silver bowls of fruit and perfumed water, converge on mission residence.
Subject names:
Cort, Edwin Charles, 1879-1950.
Topics:
Missions--Thailand., Missions, Medical--Thailand., Rites and ceremonies--Thailand., Festivals--Thailand.
Geographic subjects:
Thailand--Social life and customs.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150378
Title:
Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Charles Cort participate in "Dum Hua" ceremony.
Description:
5. In private "Dum Hua" ceremony before the public arrived, head nurse and student nurses bring gifts of fruit and, as token of affection and blessing, pour scented water from hand-beaten silver bowls over hands of the doctor and his wife.
Subject names:
Cort, Edwin Charles, 1879-1950., Cort, Mabel.
Topics:
Missionaries--Thailand., Missionaries, Medical--Thailand., Rites and ceremonies--Thailand.
Geographic subjects:
Thailand--Social life and customs.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150377
Title:
Nurses' School, Severance Union Medical College, Seoul.
Description:
Damaged during second communist occupation of Seoul.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Sebŭransŭ Yŏnhap Ŭikwa Taehak.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Nursing schools--Korea--Seoul., College buildings--Korea--Seoul., Buildings--War damage--Korea--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146144
Title:
Morning chapel in Nurses' Training School, Seoul.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Nursing students--Korea--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146140
Title:
Photo album, Korea.
Description:
[Left to right, top to bottom] Nurses in training school, including Clara Hedberg, Taiku; tent evangelism; at Sorai Beach, Susan Adams, Mrs. Lowe, Helen Chamness, and Ruth Lorene Lyons; itinerating outfit; Miss Pollard's "han bap?" at Sin Myung School, Taegu.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Lyon, Ruth Lorene, 1899-, Adams, Susan Comstock., Chamness, Helen Margaret., Bruen, Clara Hedberg
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Women missionaries--Korea--Taegu., Women nurses--Korea--Taegu., Children of missionaries--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146104
Title:
Taegu Nurses' School dedication, June 1952.
Description:
From Dr. John C. Smith's trip.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Smith, John Coventry, 1903-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Nursing schools--Korea--Taegu., Nursing students--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146051
Title:
Nurse playing with little boy, Severance Hospital, Seoul.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Sebŭransŭ Pyŏngwŏn (Korea)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Missionaries--Korea--Seoul., Nurse and patient--Korea--Seoul., Children--Korea--Seoul., Hospitals--Korea--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146047
Title:
Nurse attending to a patient, Severance Hospital, Seoul.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Sebŭransŭ Pyŏngwŏn (Korea)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Hospital patients--Korea--Seoul., Hospitals--Korea--Seoul., Women nurses--Korea--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146042
Title:
Nurse attending to a patient, Korea.
Description:
"Cheerful surrounds help this lad get well faster, Beneath the animal pictures he looks somewhat skeptically at the nurse with yet another dose of medicine, but before long he was up-and-about feeling much better."
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Nurse and patient--Korea., Children--Korea., Hospitals--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146007
Title:
Ground breaking for nurses' dormitory on October 1, 1959, Yonsei University, Seoul.
Description:
Holding shovel: Dr. L. George Paek, Yonsei University President. [Left to right, holding ropes] Miss Billingsley, Methodist Board; Dr. Ernest Weiss, Methodist; Dr. Cho, Dean; Mrs. DeCamp, UP; Miss Thelma Maw, Methodist. Standing behind: Mr. Fred Strauss, building engineer.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Yŏnse Taehakkyo., Paek, Nak-chun, Weiss, Ernest, DeCamp, Elizabeth., Maw, Thelma, Strauss, Fred.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Missionaries--Korea--Seoul., Dormitories--Korea--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145973
Title:
Faculty and graduates of Severance Union Medical College and Nurses' Training School, Seoul.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Sebŭransŭ Yŏnhap Ŭihak Chŏnmun Hakkyo.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Medical colleges--Faculty., Medical students--Korea--Seoul., Nursing students--Korea--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145961
Title:
Nurses with child patient, Severance Hospital, Seoul.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Sebŭransŭ Pyŏngwŏn (Korea)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Missionaries--Korea--Seoul., Nurse and patient--Korea--Seoul., Infants--Korea--Seoul., Hospitals--Korea--Seoul.
Geographic subjects:
Seoul (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145957
Title:
Taegu Nurses' School dedication, June 1952.
Description:
From Dr. John C. Smith's trip.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Smith, John Coventry, 1903-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Nursing schools--Korea--Taegu., Nursing students--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145876
Title:
Presbyterian Hospital and staff, Taegu, ca. 1950.
Description:
"This 70-bed institution is staffed with 11 doctors, 7 residents physicians, 6 interns and 24 graduate nurses. In addition there are 34 girls in training in the School of Nursing. Technicians and non professional workers add to a total complement of 152 people, serving a local city population of about 350,000."
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Hospitals--Korea--Taegu., Hospitals--Employees.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145838
Title:
Nurse and patient at the hospital, Taegu, ca. 1963.
Creator:
Sibley, Horace Norman., Sibley, Horace Norman. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea, Hospitals--Korea--Taegu., Nurse and patient--Korea--Taegu., Children--Hospital care--Korea--Taegu.
Geographic subjects:
Taegu (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145821

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