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Nurses leaving their residence hall on their way to classes at the teaching hospital, ca. 1950

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Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.

  • Topic:

    Nursing Careers

  • Publisher:

    Mount St. Agnes School of Nursing, Dubuque, IA
  • A line of White female nurses wearing blue capes, walking away from viewer, towards a bus.

  • Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.

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    Mount Saint Agnes Ashbury Drive-Dubuque, Iowa
    Freshmen nurses, photographed as they leave their Residence Hall, Mount Saint Agnes—en route to St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital.
    At Mercy, their practical nursing and part of their theoretical training is a given.
    Genuine Curtreich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone' Post Card (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)

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