Women nurses

Scope and Contents This collection includes an undated photograph of George B. McCafferty in uniform and a handwritten letter from Eliza E. George to Mrs. McCafferty, George's wife, written on March 4, 1865 in Wilmington, North Carolina. George was the head of the army hospital in Wilmington and informed Mrs. McCafferty that her husband had been freed from prison and was ill, but that he would be taken care of to the best of her abilities.

Scope and Contents This collection includes 3 black-and-white photographs taken circa 1887 concerning to Frances M. Ott in Indiana. The photographs, depicting Ott in her nursing uniform sitting in a chair signed "Truly yours, Frances M. Ott"; a model of a patient bed with "1887" pinned to the sheets; and the tools of the nursing trade on a table: a bell, a syringe, a measuring cup, and what may be an Ensich thermometer. Ott purportedly had such a thermometer which resembled a ladies' watch, according to a 1947...