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| Title | Student nurse in dormitory room, 1947 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1947 |
| Caption | The Roman Catholic Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart ran Columbus Hospital on Seattle's First Hill, at Tenth Avenue and Madison Street. Columbus Hospital became St. Francis X. Cabrini Hospital in the late 1950s and closed during the 1980s. Until the late 1960s, the sisters ran a nursing school as part of the hospital program.
This 1947 photo shows two women in a Seattle nursing school dormitory room. The school has tentatively been identified as the Columbus Hospital School of Nursing. |
| Subjects | Nurses; Students; Dormitories Women--Education; Columbus Hospital School of Nursing (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.16686.1 |
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| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: safety film, b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 47-6, 145 |
