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Art and handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1894)

Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854-1948 · Chicago : Rand, McNally · leaf 247

An illustration from Art and handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, 1894, leaf 247
ed by Mrs. Lionel PridginTeale, the nurses toilet basket and the glass appliances for sterilizedsurgical dressings designed by Mrs. Bedford-Fenwick. The sur-gical models, designed and made by sister Marion Turnball of theLondon Homeopathic Hospital deserve notice, as do Miss Simp-sons basket, used… … IN THE WOMANS BUILDING. 245 during this century. Twenty years ago, nursing as a profession forwoman was practically unrecognized. Very few, except those whowere unable to obtain any other means of livelihood, could beinduced to undertake it. So pressing had the need become that asuggestion was made…

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