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| Title | Nurse examining children at Bryant School, Seattle, 1945 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1945 |
| Caption | The Seattle School District hired its first school nurse in 1908. In the following years, school nurses screened students for communicable diseases, taught classes in health and nutrition and even made house calls to sick students who had to be absent for serious illnesses.
This 1945 photo, taken at Seattle's Bryant School, shows a school nurse checking the health of a group of small children. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - Bryant (health clinic) with: (Mrs) Mabel Austin.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 2, 1945. |
| Subjects | Nurses--Washington (State)--Seattle; School children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Health care--Washington (State)--Seattle; Medical equipment & supplies--Washington (State)--Seattle; Schools--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Austin, Mabel |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Ravenna (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25441 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
