A community of people greet a nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service. The nurse is identifiable by the white scarf, dress, and shoes. The other women in the photo wear dresses in patterns and hats or bonnets. The nurse is holding an infant as are...
A dark horse with a white mark on its forehead stands in water a couple of feet deep. The water appears to be a stream due to its depth and the view of land on one side with a branch extending out over the water. A rider sits on top of the horse,...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service approaches a group sitting on a porch. The nurse is holding the reins of a dark horse with a blaze on its muzzle. She's wearing a cap and jacket, riding pants and boots, and a dark tie. Another horse is...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service arrives on horseback at a two-story log cabin. She holds a barefooted infant on the saddle in front of her. A crowd of mostly women and children stand in a semi-circle around her. The photograph was taken...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Families; Newspapers; People
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service sits on a chair next to a mother holding an infant. The nurse wears a cap, long-sleeved blouse with a tie, pants, and an apron. The mother wears a v-neck sweater and a skirt and a bandana on her head....
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Families; Newspapers; People
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service stands next to the chair of a woman holding a baby in a blanket. Four small children sit on the wood floor and one older child leans against the wall. The nurse is wearing a cap, blouse, tie, jacket, and...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service stands with her horse in front of a log cabin. A boy sits on the cabin steps and a girl stands next to them as a woman with an infant on her hip stands in the doorway. The nurse is smiling down at the boy....
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service talks with girls and a woman near a well. She is holding a brown horse by the reins. The horse wears a saddle. The nurse wears a cap and jacket with the initials FNS on the sleeve. She wears riding pants...
Louisville City Hospital; Louisville General Hospital; Nursing students; Medical equipment & supplies
A nurse in a white uniform and cap with a stripe stands with three nursing students wearing striped blouses, aprons, and caps. The nurse holds a test tube and eyedropper. On back of photograph: Nursing Students. They are at Louisville City Hospital...
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Nurses; Stoves; People
A nurse stands by a cast iron stove pouring something from a tea kettle into a bowl. She is dressed in white with a scarf on her head. The little girl watches her. Herbs and bowls are hanging from the walls and ceiling.
A student at Louisville City Hospital or Louisville General Hospital school of nursing sits at a table reading a book. She wears a uniform of striped blouse with cuffs, apron, and cap with a stripe. Bookshelves are behind her. Louisville City...
A woman holds her horse steady in a stream. Her riding outfit includes a hat, jacket, blouse, and wide-hipped pants tucked into knee-high boots. The dark horse has bridle with a bit. The saddle rests on top of a blanket and the rider's boots rest...
A woman in a cap, jacket and riding boots pauses on a horse. She is likely Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. The horse wears a bridle and a saddle with a blanket. The scene is set at the edge of a woods near a stream. A...
A woman in a cap, jacket, and riding boots pauses on a horse. She is likely Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. The horse wears a bridle and a saddle with a blanket. The scene is set in a stream with woods and a building in...
Louisville City Hospital; Nurses; Alumni & alumnae; Events
Alumnae event at Louisville City Hospital school of nursing, which later became Louisville General Hospital. Women, some in dresses and some in nursing uniforms, fill the seats in an auditorium. More women stand along the back and side walls....
An emaciated man lies in a hospital bed at Heritage House Nursing & Convalescent Care with a carton of Camel cigarettes on the table next to him. Titled edited by a cataloger to remove personal information.
Life care communities--Kentucky--Louisville; Congregate housing--Kentucky--Louisville; Older people--Housing--Kentucky--Louisville
As the older adult population in the United States continues its accelerated growth, there is a growing concern about the long-term care options for these elders. While nursing homes are no longer desirable and costly for federal and state...
Adjustment (Psychology) in old age; Aging; Elderly poor; Nursing home patients
BACKGROUND: Current successful aging theory excludes individuals with disease or
disability, limits the potential for successful aging in minority and lower socioeconomic
populations, focuses on behavioral determinants of health rather than social...
Cape from a nurse's uniform worn by E. S. Snyder affiliated with Louisville City Hospital. Eva Sesmer Snyder graduated from the Jewish Hospital School of nursing in 1913 or 1914. On back of photograph: E S Snyder WWI. Title supplied by cataloger.
Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.; Buildings; Health care facilities
Caroline Butler Atwood Memorial Center, a unit of the Frontier Nursing Service on Red Bird River in Clay County, Kentucky. Buildings, split rail fence, and circular road in a rural, wooded area. On back of image: "Caroline Butler Atwood...
