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Creator
Lincoln School for Nurses
Call number
Sc MIRS Lincoln 1994-18
Physical description
1 moving_image_recording
Language
English
Preferred Citation
Lincoln School for Nurses film collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
Sponsor
An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project.
Repository
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
Access to materials
Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.Restrictions apply

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.

Biographical/historical information

The Lincoln School for Nurses was the first nursing school for African American women in New York City, and the sixth nursing school for African American women founded in the United States. The first was at Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. The Lincoln School for Nurses was founded in the Bronx in 1898 at the Home for the Colored Aged, now Lincoln Hospital. The first class of six students graduated in 1900, and a total of 1,864 Black women from the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa attended the school. The Alumnae Association was formed in 1905. The last class graduated in 1961, the year the school closed.

Scope and arrangement

The collection consists of one film relating to the Lincoln School for Nurses dating from circa 1949 to 1961.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

The Lincoln Fund, 1986; Ivy N. Tinkler, 1994; and Ivy N. Tinkler and Janice M. Gray, 2004.

Processing information

Collection inventoried by Nathan Evans and Virginia Mullaney. Collection processed and described by Lyric Evans-Hunter, archivist. Finding aid published in 2025.

Separated material

See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Lincoln School for Nurses Collection, Sc MG 248.

See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Lincoln School for Nurses Collection, Sc Photo Lincoln School for Nurses Collection.

Related Material

See the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division for The Lincoln School for Nurses, A Retrospective: The Way We Were, 1920's-1960's, Sc D 97-658.

Using the collection

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Third Floor

Access to materials

Appointment preferred: Request an in-person research appointment.

Access restrictions

At the time of publishing, one film is not available pending digitization.