# Pauline Kirby (5493900611)

- By: Adam Cuerden
- Date: Most likely 1954, given summary quoted above.
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Pauline Kirby uploaded by the Smithsonian Institution
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pauline_Kirby_(5493900611).jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/5/5e/Pauline_Kirby_%285493900611%29.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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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