Found 2 collections related to Nursing -- Study and teaching

Edward Demby was the first black Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, his wife Antoinette M. Demby was a member of the first graduating class of nurses from Howard University's Freedmen's Hospital. Bishop Demby's collection, 1893-1957, consists of an autobiographical sketch, correspondence, 1930s-1950s sermons and scrapbooks of printed material including a golden anniversary scrapbook. Mrs. Demby's collection consists of a journal, 1901-1955, personal papers and several notebooks kept by her while a nursing student. less

The Lincoln School for Nurses was the first nursing school for African American women in New York City, founded in the Bronx in 1898 and operating until 1961. The collection consists of one film relating to the Lincoln School for Nurses dating from circa 1949 to 1961. less