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| Title | Habit worn by the Sisters of Providence, this tradtional style was worn from 1844 until 1966. |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1844 - 1966 |
| Notes | With very slight variations over time, this habit was worn by members of the Sisters of Providence religious community from 1844 until 1966, when a modified habit was adopted. The habit included a silver pectoral cross and a set of Our Lady of Seven Dolors beads suspended from the waist to a rosary but containing seven decades rather than ten. In 1877, the Sisters of Providence responded to a request to care for those in the Seattle area who were sick and poor. The "Poor House" at 5th Avenue and Spring Street became Providence Hospital, which moved in 1911 to 17th and Jefferson. By 1907, seventeen Sisters of Charity of Providence were registered as nurses in the state of Washington. Needs for nursing care increased, and the Providence Hospital School of Nursing was opened July 16, 1907, with four lay students enrolled. The first class of the Providence Hospital School of Nursing graduated in 1910. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact Providence Archives, 4800 37th Ave SW, Seattle, 98126, attention Peter Schmid, Visual Resources Archivist, 206.923.4012, peter.schmid@providence.org |
| Credit Line | Providence Archives, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Sisters of Providence Archives |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
| Accession/Acquisition Number | 56.C21.9 |
