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  1. A district nurse with her outdoor uniform and bag. Watercolor drawing, Wellcome Library, no. 17436i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175317. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  2. "A Drastic Measure." Punch, vol. 121, 1901, pp. 219. Wellcome Library, Record no. 1714437, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1312142. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  3. A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. London, Messrs Fores. Wellcome Library, Record no. 17727i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175608. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  4. A group of nurses. Guy's Hospital Gazette: Bicentenary number 1725-1925. 1925, pp. 129. Wellcome Library, Record no. 11565623, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1301000. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  5. A grumpy nurse carrying a bowl and candle-stick. Wellcome Library, Record no. 11738i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1159860. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  6. A hospital at Scutari, a surgeon setting an arm in a splint, F. Nightingale, a nurse. 'The work of Miss Florence Nightingale. The nurses at work in the hospital at Scutari'. Wellcome Images, L0012356, Wellcome Library, wellcomeimages.org. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  7. A portrait of an army nurse. Watercolour drawing. Wellcome Library, Record no. 17438i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175319. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  8. An army hospital nurse in her outdoor uniform. C. C. 1899. Videodisc no.: 15499R, Wellcome Library, Record no. 17432i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175313. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  9. “An Angel of Mercy, ca. 1915.” Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=105. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  10. An English hospital nurse in full uniform. [1899?] Watercolour drawing. Wellcome Library, Record no. 17431i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175312. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  11. “An illustration of a nurse as an Angel of Mons, a British legend from the first days of WWI, ca. 1916.” Postcard.  Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=179. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  12. “An illustration of a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, ca. 1915.” London, A. Vivian Mansell & Co. Publishing, Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=183. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  13. “An illustration of Charlie Chaplin as a wounded soldier, making advances to a pretty nurse, ca. 1918.” Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?action=browse&view=detail&asset=361&selected=A. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  14. Armytage, James-Charles. Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and nurses. Wellcome Library, Record no. 21262i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1179130. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  15. Barribal, William Henry. “A British Red Cross nurse portrayed as a companion to the soldiers, ca. 1916.” London, Valentine & Sons Ltd. Publishing, Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=182. Accessed 30 June 2016.

  16. Boer War: a nurse lifts the head of a wounded man lying in a hospital ward. 1900. Wellcome Library, Record no. 23499i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1181355. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  17. Browne, Hablot K. Caddy’s Flowers. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. 1854. pp. 170. Scanned by George P. Landow, 6 Feb. 2012, Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/bleakhouse/12.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  18. Browne, Hablot K. In Re Guppy’s Extraordinary Proceedings. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. 1854. pp. 170. Scanned by George P. Landow, Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/bleakhouse/7.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  19. Browne, Hablot K. Light. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. 1854. pp. 493. Scanned by George P. Landow, Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/bleakhouse/32.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  20. Browne, Hablot K. Miss Jellyby. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. 1854. pp. 31. Scanned by George P. Landow, Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/bleakhouse/3.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  21. Browne, Hablot K. Nurse and Patient. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. 1854. pp. 309. Scanned by George P. Landow, Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/bleakhouse/20.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  22. Browne, Hablot K. The Visit to the Brickmaker’s. Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. 1854. pp. 73. Scanned by George P. Landow, Victorian Web, http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/phiz/bleakhouse/6.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  23. Buchel, Charles. “Belgian Red Cross.” Poster. 1916. Imperial War Museum, n.d. © IWM (Art.IWM PST 10906), http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/3780. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  24. Butcher, Arthur. “An illustration of a Red Cross nurse driving with a soldier, ca. 1916.”  Postcard.  London, Inter-Art Co., https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=351. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  25. Butcher, Arthur. “The nurse portrayed as a comforting presence, ca. 1916.” London, Inter-Art Co., Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014, https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=352. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  26. Butcher, Arthur. “The nurse portrayed as a healing angel, ca. 1916.” Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection. National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014, http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?action=browse&view=detail&asset=350&selected=A. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  27. Butcher, Arthur. “The Real Angel of Mons, ca. 1915.” Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014, http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=7. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  28. Butterworth, J. after Charles Algernon Tomkins. “Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her candle making the night round of the wards at Scutari hospital.” Times, London, Lloyd Brothers & Co., 30 June 1855. Wellcome Library, Record no. 24568i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1182417. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  29. “Comrades in arms, an illustration of the popular romantic fantasy of a nurse and soldier falling in love, ca. 1916.”  Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=346. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  30. “Comrades in Arms, ca. 1915.” Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014, http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=66. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  31. Cover of booklet on the Liverpool Queen Victoria District Nursing Association, showing Queen presenting badges to a line of nurses in uniform. Queen’s Nursing Institute, Wellcome Library, Archives and Manuscripts SA/QNI/X.38/1, wellcomeimages.org. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  32. Doyle, John. A man being restrained in a chair whilst a doctor and nurse prepare to give him some medicine; satirizing English politicians' feelings towards Daniel O'Connell. London, Thos, McLean, 23 Feb. 1833. Wellcome Library, Record no. 12239i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1160417. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  33. Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson, and V & C. A cured patient thanking a nurse for all her kindness. Wellcome Library, Record no. 15622i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1164173. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  34. Examples of early Queen's Nurses. Wellcome Library, Archives and Manuscripts reference no. CMAC SA/QNI/H2/1, wellcomeimages.org. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  35. Foringer, Alonzo. “The Greatest Mother in the World.” Poster. Images of Hope: American Red Cross Posters 1918-1951, 1918. American Red Cross, n.d. http://www2.redcross.org/museum/exhibits/posters.asp. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  36. Franco-Prussian War: a nurse treating wounded servians in an Usicza hospital. London, Illustrated London News, Wellcome Library, Record no. 21833i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1179699. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  37. Graves, C. L. “Our Nurses.” Mr. Punch History of Modern England, vol. 2, 1921, pp. 249. Wellcome Library, L0004463, wellcomeimages.org. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  38. “The greatest Cross of all! British Red Cross promotional card, ca. 1915.” London, Inter-Art Co, Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=177. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  39. Hampstead Smallpox Hospital: view of a room with patients and nurses. Illustrated London News, 1871. Wellcome Library, Record no. 1752679, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1318338. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  40. “His Overseas Mother, United States, ca. 1918.” Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014, http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=42. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  41. Hunt, W. A dishevelled nurse with her disgruntled patient. Coloured Lithograph. [London] (101 Strand), [R. Ac]kermann ([C. Hul]lmandel). Wellcome Library, Record no. 11736i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1159858. Accessed 3 Oct. 2016.

  42. Kilburne, George Goodwin, after J. C. Griffiths. “A patient lies on a chaise-longue, while a nurse brings her some refreshment.” Illustrated London News. Wellcome Library, Record no. 17174i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175057. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  43. King, Gunning. A nurse attempts to wake up one of her patients who has just died. 1906. Wellcome Library, Record no. 15346i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1163866. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  44. Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). [Sairey Gamp.] From “Character Sketches from Charles Dickens, Pourtrayed by Kyd”, or “The Characters of Charles Dickens Pourtrayed in a Series of Original Water Colour Sketches by Kyd.” Scanned and archived at http://www.gallery.oldbookart.com/main.php, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sairey_Gamp_1889_Dickens_Martin_Chuzzlewit_character_by_Kyd_(Joseph_Clayton_Clarke).jpg. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  45. Lackernav, L. T. A doctor and nurses playing cards in a room with a sick patient. Wellcome Library, Record no. 15701i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1164261. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  46. Lavery Sir John. World War I: a ward in the London Hospital in which a nurse tends a soldier's arm while other soldiers lie in bed. 1915. Wellcome Library, Record no. 583836i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1583836. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  47. Maud, W. T. Drawing by Frank Dadd. Boer War: a nurse helping invalids to an ambulance for transfer to Maritzburg from Ladysmith. Swain [s.l.]. Wellcome Library, Record no. 22322i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1180183. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  48. Maurice, Rez. “Oh, something about a pretty girl and wounded soldier with a happy ending, ca. 1918.” Postcard. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014, http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=67. Accessed 30 Jun. 2016.

  49. Meadows, Kenny, after Laurence Sterne. Wood engraving by Orrin Smith. A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby for the first month after the birth. Heads of the People. London, R. Tyas, 1840. pp. 98. Wellcome Library, Record no. 11737i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1159859. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  50. Monnier, H. B. Colored wood engraving by J. A. Lavieille. A home nurse carrying a 'hot-coal' bed warmer [left]. A caricature of a drunken nurse [right]. Wellcome Library, Iconographic Collections, https://wellcomeimages.org/. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  51. Monnier, Henry Bonaventure. Wood engraving by Jacques Adrien Lavieille. A home nurse carrying a 'hot-coal' bed warmer. Wellcome Library, Record no. 17423i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175304. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  52. Morten, Honnor. “Uniforms for the nurses at St George's Hospital.” How to become a nurse and how to succeed. London, Scientific Press, [1892?], Wellcome Library. Record no. 32575255, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1008708. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  53. Moser, Oswald. World War One: superintending Sister Quarns is seated in chair. Watercolour by O. Moser, 1919, Wellcome Library, Record no. 572915i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1572915. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  54. Paque, Oliver. Boer War: Queen Alexandra presenting war medals to the nurses of the Imperial Yeomanry hospital. 1902. Wellcome Library, Record no. 23843i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1181697. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  55. Payne, Harry. “A fundraising card for the British Red Cross and Order of St. John nursing organizations ca. 1915.” British Red Cross and Order of St. John, Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014. https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=176. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  56. “Photograph showing Staff Nurses.” Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection, Album of photographs of the King George V Military Hospital, Stamford Street, London, First World War. 1915. pp. 9. The RAMC Muniment Collection in the care of the Wellcome Library c. 1915, Wellcome Library, Archives and Manuscripts RAMC/720, wellcomeimages.org. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  57. Raven-Hill, Leonard. An exhausted nurse who has been looking after her patient for many hours asks when she may go to bed, the patient's mother retorts that she thought she was a trained nurse. Wellcome Library, Record no. 15626i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1164177. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  58. Rowlandson, Thomas. A convalescing woman trying in vain to rouse her slumbering hired nurse: the cat scavenges her food and the candle sets light to the carpet. Oct. 1807, Etched by Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens con Heideloff. R. Ackermann, [London] (Repository of Arts, 101 Strand). Wellcome Library, Record no. 11876i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1160013. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  59. Rowlandson, Thomas. An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. 12 Feb. 1811, Coloured etching, Thos, Tegg [London] (111 Cheapside). Wellcome Library, Record no. 16984i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1174869. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  60. Rowlandson, Thomas. Colored lithograph by C. J. Winter. Three doctors in close discussion, their patient being nursed in the next room. 1869. Wellcome Library, Record no. 11633i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1159744. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  61. [Eytinge, Jr., Sol.] “Sairey Gamp and Betsey Prig prepare their patient for a journey” An illustration for Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens. The History of the British Empire, by Sarah A. Tooley, London, S.A. Bousfield, 1906, pp. 52. Wellcome Library, http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0018396.html Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  62. Spence, Percy, after H. Egersdorfer. Boer War: a full ward in the military hospital at Wynberg, South Africa, with nurses attending the wounded. c.1900. Wellcome Library, Record no. 23294i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1181151. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  63. Spurgin, Frederick. “An illustration of a young boy choosing between one nurse portrayed as a pretty sex symbol and another portrayed as a frustrated, elderly, ‘battleaxe,’ early 20th century.  London, Art and Humour Publishing Co. Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014.    https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=380. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  64. “THE NEW WOMAN.” Fun, vol. 60, no. 1534, 1894, pp. 140. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.proxy.library.ohiou.edu/docview/5822226?accountid=12954. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  65. "THE "NEW" WOMAN." Judy: or The London serio-comic journal, 1894, pp. 98. ProQuest, http://search.proquest.com.proxy.library.ohiou.edu/docview/3387063?accountid=12954. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  66. “THE NEW WOMAN.” Judy: or The London serio-comic journal, 1894, pp. 178. ProQuest, http://search.proquest.com.proxy.library.ohiou.edu/docview/3389042?accountid=12954. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  67. “THE NEW WOMAN AGAIN.” Judy: or The London serio-comic journal, 1894, pp. 287. ProQuest, http://search.proquest.com.proxy.library.ohiou.edu/docview/3375868?accountid=12954. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  68. “‘THE NEW WOMAN’.” The Sketch, vol. 7, no. 89, 1894, pp. 595. ProQuest, http://search.proquest.com.proxy.library.ohiou.edu/docview/1638110836?accountid=12954. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  69. “The nurse portrayed as pretty romantic interest, ca. 1916.” Sevenoaks, England, J. Salmon Publishing, Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection, National Library of Medicine, 15 Aug. 2014, https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=1&action=browse&view=detail&asset=357. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  70. The Prince of Wales addressing nurses at a meeting about the National Pension Fund for Nurses, Marlborough House. Illustrated London News, 1890. Wellcome Library, Record no. 17429i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1175310. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  71. “These are all Voluntary Aid Nurses. (V.A.D's) Mostly members of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade and a large number daughters of the Nobility and Elite of London.” Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection, Album of photographs of the King George V Military Hospital, Stamford Street, London, First World War, 1915, pp. 3. The RAMC Muniment Collection. Archives and Manuscripts RAMC/720, Wellcome Library, wellcomeimages.org. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  72. Three Quarter length portrait of Florence Nightingale. 1860. Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florence_Nightingale_three_quarter_length.jpg. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  73. Two old gouty men dancing with bandaged legs, an old nurse is holding their crutches, behind her is a gleeful doctor. W. Holland, London (50 Oxford St.), June 1801. Wellcome Library, Record no.11204i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1159269. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  74. Wandesforde, J. B. Engraving by W. Wellstood. Florence Nightingale. New York, W. Young & Co., 1856, http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0006642.html. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  75. Wilkie, David. “The Monthly Nurse.” 1840, Slide number 1356, Wellcome Library, wellcomeimages.org. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  76. Wood, Starr. Four children, two with measles, in the same bed: their mother tells the district nurse that there is no risk of infection. London Mail, London, 23 Oct. 1915. Wellcome Library, Record no. 16901i, http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1174787. Accessed 6 Oct. 2016.

  77. Frontispiece. The Good Nurse; or, Hints on the Management of the Sick and Lying-In Chamber, and the Nursery, by Elizabeth Hanbury. 2nd edition, London, Longman, Res, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.

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