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Title Scrapbook, Amy Eleanor Wingreen papers, 1898-1900

Date 1898-1900

Subjects Military nursing, Nurses, Yellow fever

Description Forms part of the Midwest Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Letters, narratives, photographs, clippings and official notes relating to Wingreen's service as a nurse at a military camp hospital in Siborny, Cuba, 1898-1899. Includes letters, often reading like a diary, which Amy Wingreen sent to her sister, mother and nephew as she traveled from Chicago to Cuba and back again to New York and Washington in the summer of 1898, plus a small group of letters to her from relatives and friends of some of the soldiers she nursed. Also miscellaneous material relating to her medical service from April, 1898, to December, 1899; two narratives of her experiences, one by her and one by her (later) executor Esther Turkington; a scrapbook of clippings and official notes; and a group of photographs of the army hospital in Siborny, Cuba, and some of the soldiers she nursed.

Biographical/Historical Note Chicago nurse and expert in yellow fever care, who served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Extent .2 cubic ft. (1 box)

Format Scrapbooks

Archival Collection Title Amy Eleanor Wingreen Papers

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Midwest MS Wingreen Box 2

BibID 184085

Size 2926px × 3694px 30.97 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

File Created 11/01/2016

Filename 991840858805867_mms_wingreen_box_02_01_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL1Q2UC

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