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[Identification of item], Howard Kelly Collection of Florence Nightingale Prints and Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Howard Kelly Collection of Florence Nightingale Prints and Photographs was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2011 as a transfer from the Medical Center Library.
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Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 to a wealthy family living at the time in Florence, Italy. She was instrumental in the establishment of training for nurses, improvements in standards of hygiene, and compassionate care of patients in military and civilian hospitals and the workhouses of Britain. Her activities and service during the Crimean War, 1854-1856, elevated her to iconic status; the popular press began reporting extensively on her travels and her crusade for healthcare and sanitary reforms. She founded the Nightingale School of Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London in 1860, the first of its kind. She also traveled to Greece and Egypt. During the Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War, and the Franco-Prussian War she consulted with military officials on hospitals and medical care. She wrote extensively on nursing, healthcare and sanitation, and healthcare statistics. Her life was memorialized through named institutions, biographies, photographic and print images, music, dramas, poetry, sculptures, and plaques. She died in London in 1910.
The Howard Kelly Collection of Florence Nightingale Prints and Photographs represents the collecting efforts of Howard Atwood Kelly, a surgeon, gynecologist, professor, author, collector of medical memorabilia, and founder of the Kensington Hospital in Philadelphia. He served as the first professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. The collection is composed of images and memorials associated with Florence Nightingale, 19th century nurse, author, and sanitation and healthcare reformer. Image formats include engravings, photographs, lithographs, mezzo tints, prints, postcards, and photographic and slide reproductions of drawings, lithographs, engravings, crayon drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Unless otherwise noted, all images are in black and white. Almost all are mounted on cardstock boards. The images depict Florence Nightingale throughout her adult life; some also portray monuments to Nightingale, and geographical locations associated with her birth, death, and nursing career, including her activities in Scutari (Istanbul) tending to wounded soldiers, the peak of her popularization in the media of the time. Also included are one piece of sheet music (1857) and typed explanatory notes. Reproductions in slide and photograph format accompany many of the images. Arranged chiefly in chronological order by date of publication or creation. Acquired as part of the History of Medicine Collections at Duke University.
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Contains photographs, lithographs, engravings,and prints as well as photographic reproductions of drawings, engravings, crayon drawings, paintings, and sculptures memorializing Florence Nightingale. The images were created between 1840 and 1949, and most are mounted on card stock. Also includes a piece of popular sheet music published in 1857. Arranged in original order as they appear in the folders, roughly chronological. Some images are mounted together on one board.
The original portrait is owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.
Includes one slide reproduction of the image made in 1939.
Drawn by G.W. Terry, lithograph made by G. Greatbach for the London Printing and Publishing Company.
Engraved by G. E. Perine and Company, New York. Includes two reproductions of the image; one photograph of a crayon-drawing of the portrait, and one photograph reproduction of the crayon drawing of the portrait in oval.
Copied from memory by Augustin Rischy from another drawing.
Engraved by G. E. Perine and Company, N.Y., prob. during Crimean War.
The image is based on a drawing by Parthenope Nightingale, Florence Nightingale's sister. Published 6 June 1855 by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Company, London, England. Includes two reproductions of the image; one photographic reproduction of the image and one printed reproduction of the image on a card from the Nursing Mirror Christmas card, circa 1951.
Based on a sketch by Selina Mills, better known as Lady Bracebridge,and later drawn by Lady Verny and Lady Anne Blunt. Lithograph made by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen. Includes one reproduction in slide format made in 1949.
Published June 20, 1855 by Lloyd Brother and Co. Includes one reproduction in slide format made in 1948.
Engraved and published by Ellis, London.
Drawn by W. Simpson, lithograph made by E. Walker for Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen. Published 21 April 1856 by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi. Includes a two-page typed-script manuscript titled "A Ward in the Hospital at Scutari," and two black and white photographic reproductions.
Photograph of the original drawing by Jerry Barratt. Includes one reduction in photograph format.
Drawn by W. H. Kearney, engraved by G. Greatbach for the London Printing and Publishing Company.
Includes one reproduction in photograph format.
Drawn by W. Simpson, lithograph made by J. Needham for Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen. Published 26 April 1856 by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi. Includes one reproduction in slide format made in 1947 and a one-page typed-script manuscript pasted onto the back of the image titled "Hospital and Cemetery at Scutari."
Lithographic title page of a 6-page piece of sheet music depicts Nightingale in a military ward. Poetry by C. A. Somerset, music by W. West, dedicated to Miss Burdett Coutts. Originally sung and arranged by Miss Pearce.
Includes autograph note reading "About Oct. 30, i.e. 1858. See Cook's life vol. 1, p. 394."
Commissioned by the U.S. Sanitary Commission and the U.S. Christian Commission. Entered according to Act of Congress, 1865 by W. S. Williams and Company.
Engraving drawn by R. Hind, engraved by W. Hulland for the London Printing and Publishing Company.
Photograph of the sculpture by Charles J. Allen. Includes one reproduction in photographic format as well as 2 typescript notes pasted onto the back of the image regarding the provenance of the photograph.
Includes two reproductions; one reproduction in photograph format, and one reproduction in slide format.
Original engraving by Francis Grant and George Raphael Ward, London.
London residence of Florence Nightingale where she died in 1920.
Photograph shows a collection of prints and books about Florence Nightingale. Many of the images appear in this collection.
Reproduction of the original image by Barlser. Includes one photographic reproduction in folder 3.
Includes one reproduction in photographic format.
Includes two reproductions; one reproduction in photograph format, and one reproduction in slide format.
Depicts the Nightingale Chair with a small statue and various portraits of Florence Nightingale.
Anonymous seated man reading a book in a study or library. Signed by Reginald Hamish, possibly.
London, George Routledge and Company.
Includes one duplicate in photographic format.
Engraved by J. Cole.
Statue erected circa 1870.
Statue located at the Florence Nightingale Home at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. Engraving drawn by H. Bonham Carter and engraved by C. H. Jeens.
Sculpted by Countess Feodora Gleichen.
Contains undated manuscripts regarding accounts from the Crimean War, a postcard of Florence Nightingale's birth and death place, and the original folio binder in which the Nightingale Photographs and Prints were housed.
Undated, double-sided typescript containing a description of the hospital and cemetery at Scutari. Includes a two-page facsimile of the manuscript.
Undated, double-sided typescript describing the hospital at Scutari. Includes a two-page facsimile of the manuscript.