Whitehead (Nurse) Autograph Album, 1918

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Nurse Whitehead autograph album
Dates:
1918
Creators:
Whitehead, Nurse
Extent:
1 Linear Feet (1 album)
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

This album amicorum was kept by nurse Whitehead, known to one soldier as "Nurse Whitey," in 1918 at the Moor Park Auxiliary War Hospital (Moor Park Military Hospital). The album contains autographs by convalescing soldiers, 5 portrait drawings (of nurse Whitehead?), 5 cartoons or caricatures, 1 other drawing, and 4 verses. Laid in are four unused sentimental photographic postcards (in English or German) and one needlepoint-decorated "Souvenir de Cologne" greeting card from a son to his mother.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-15 16:07:24 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Location of this collection:
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
Contact:
(310) 825-6940