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Pauline Kirby (5493900611)
Most likely 1954, given summary quoted above.
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Pauline Kirby uploaded by the Smithsonian Institution
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
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- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Creator: United States Army
Subject: Kirby, Pauline United States Army Nurse Corps Walter Reed Army Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Type: Black-and-White Prints
Date: 5/4/1954
Topic: Neurobehavioral disorders Psychiatry Women scientists
Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-4824]
Summary: In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined the ANC in 1926 and had served as the U.S. Army's assistant director of nurses in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, and assisted with the establishment of neuropsychiatric hospitals for wounded soldiers.
Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Persistent URL:Link to data base record
Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives
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