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"Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae" Scrapbook, circa 1910-1952
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Minor Private Hospital Alumnae Association
- Title
- "Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae" Scrapbook
- Dates
- circa 1910-1952 (inclusive)19051957
- Quantity
- 1 box, (.4 cubic feet)
- Collection Number
- 1954.683 (accession)
- Summary
- Scrapbook compiled by the Minor Private Hospital Alumnae Association containing photographs, clippings, mementos and biographical information
- Repository
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Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library
P.O. Box 80816
Seattle, WA
98108
Telephone: 2063241126 x102
library@mohai.org - Access Restrictions
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The collection is open to the public by appointment.
- Languages
- English.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Minor Private Hospital was founded in January 1906, and a two-story, brick hospital building constructed at 1420 Spring Street in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood. Most hospitals of the time had a religious affiliation, and the St. Anthony Association operated Minor Private Hospital. The hospital was named for one of Seattle’s leading philanthropists, Dr. Thomas T. Minor (1844-1889.)
Legislation passed by the Washington Legislature in 1909 required that nurses complete a course of study and be certified by a state licensing board. This led to a proliferation of so-called “Nightingale schools,” or nurse training programs. In September 1906, a school for nurses was established at Minor Hospital with a three-year course of training.
The Hospital provided the nursing students with the basic clinical and practical experience considered necessary. There was a minimum of formal classroom instruction. The hospital hired only supervisory nurses, so the student nurses provided the patient care and housekeeping. Probationers, as student nurses were called, worked eight to ten hours a day, seven days a week, and were expected to adhere to a strict code of conduct and obey physicians and supervisors without question. At the end of the program, students received a diploma and were eligible to work as a trained nurse, earning about five dollars a week in 1910.
The Minor Hospital nursing students originally resided in the main building, but as the hospital expanded a home was leased for them nearby at Boylston and Spring Streets, increasing the hospital capacity from 43 to 60 beds. Minor Private Hospital closed in 1928, and the last nursing school class graduated in 1930.
The nurses later organized the Minor Hospital Alumnae Association, and the Seattle group continued to meet into the 1950s, hosting events such as banquets and holiday parties. In 1948, the Association began compiling a memoir scrapbook for presentation to the Seattle Historical Society (now the Museum of History & Industry). Amateur photographer Enid Bell Ericksson, class of 1921, spearheaded the project and was responsible for the artistic design and organization of the alumnae class pages. She died unexpectedly in 1949, and Margaret E. Bateman, class of 1922, donated the scrapbook to the Historical Society in 1954.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists of one 12 x 14 inch leather bound, 200-page scrapbook, and five loose photographs from alumnae social events in the 1940s and 1950s. The scrapbook is primarily organized in chronological order, with a separate section dedicated to each nursing class between 1910 and 1930. These class sections include small portraits and names of the graduating nurses, informal snapshots, updated biographical information and photographs of diplomas, licenses, and commencement programs. Other photographs depict the hospital exterior, Thomas T. Minor’s home and the nurses' residence.
The scrapbook also includes a three-page typewritten history of Minor Private Hospital, the nursing curriculum, and a detailed biography of Thomas T. Minor. Several pages are dedicated to the Minor Hospital doctors, including small photographs and autographs. A collection of newspaper clippings and magazine articles document the accomplishments of Minor Hospital nursing graduates.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Preferred Citation
"Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae" Scrapbook , Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Location of Collection
12a.3.12Acquisition Information
Gift of Margaret E. Bateman; received in 1954. Donor was Secretary of the Minor Private Hospital Alumnae Association.
Processing Note
Scrapbook was interleaved with acid-free paper in 2014 to protect the photographs from acid migration from the facing scrapbook pages.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Scrapbook, circa 1910-1952Return to Top
Date of materials in the scrapbook is circa 1910-1952; the scrapbook itself was created beginning in 1949. Brown leather cover with attached painted leather emblem stamped "Minor Private Hospital, Seattle 1906" with image of caduceus in center. Embossed in gold with "Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae." The cover page for each class is hand-lettered and illustrated, listing the class flower (with color illustration), class colors, and class motto, and listing the names of the women comprising that class.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Page | ||
3 | circa 1928 | |
4 | Photograph of Thomas T. Minor with dedication poem below |
circa 1889 |
5 |
Thomas T. Minor biography
Note on page indicates that this handwritten essay is condensed from a biography, "Dr. Minor," written
by his grandson Thomas Minor Pelly in 1933.
|
1933 |
6 | Photographs of Thomas T. Minor residence, corner of Minor Avenue and
Cherry Street 2 photographs
|
1951 May 9 |
7 |
Photographs of Minor Hospital nursing superintendents 4 photographs
Photographs of Lucy I. Pringle, P. Josephine Prince, Ethel M. Sikes, Caroline E. Davis
|
circa 1920 |
8 | Nursing superintendents biographical information
Education, dates of service and biographical summary for five nursing superintendents: Lucy I. Pringle,
P. Josephine Prince, Ethel M. Sikes, Caroline E. Davis, and Edna Duskin
|
circa 1920 |
9 | Alumnae Association memorial list
Names, class year and death dates of 24 deceased alumnae.
|
circa 1950 |
11 |
Photograph of Minor Hospital nursing caps
Photograph of cap used from 1907-1918, and cap adopted for use in 1918, when the ruching used in the
original caps was unavailable during World War I.
|
circa 1918 |
13 | Photographs of Minor Hospital School for Nurses graduation certificate
and folding leather holder |
1921 |
15 | Photograph of Washington State Nursing License for Minor
Graduate |
1921 |
17 | Photograph of Florence Nightingale's Nursing Pledge |
circa 1918 |
18-23 |
Image of Minor Private Hospital Class of 1910 nurses, ca. 1910 Nursing students sitting for exam at Minor Private Hospital nursing school, 1910
Includes nine small individual portraits of class members Elizabeth Matheson, Lena J. Watt, Imogene
Thompson, Elizabeth M. Eby, Marguarite A. Brogan, Idella M. Weston, Edith S. Goodrich, Lillian V. Thompson and
superintendent Lucy Pringle; an invitation to commencement of this first graduating class of Minor Private Hospital
School of Nursing; two photographs of the commencement program; six photographs of the nurses in groups and
individually; and current biographical information about class members.
|
1910; circa 1950 |
25-27 | Class of 1911
Includes one composite photograph showing six of the nine class members, who are listed as: Ellen B.
Johnson, N. Maude Hosfelt, Della Locy, Cora A. Cathcart, Caroline P. Mann, Estelle Hoskinson, Ina B. Jenks, Avis Weed.
Also includes a small portrait of a baby wearing a nursing cap, identified as Maravene Scarborough, "class mascot," and
current biographical information about class members.
|
1911; circa 1950 |
28-31 | Class of 1912
Includes two small group photographs of class members Ada M. Merrifield, Elizabeth A. Lancaster, Daisy
Kensley, Frances A. Norquist, Harriet E. Dougherty, P. Josephine Prince, Ethel Duncan, and Muriel T. Dunstan; a
photograph of the commencement invitation; a composite photograph of five of the nurses; and current biographical
information about class members.
|
1912; circa 1950 |
32-39 |
Photographs of Minor Private Hospital and nurses' residence "Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae" scrapbook, 1913 Photographs of the Class of 1913 in "Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae" scrapbook, circa 1950
Includes one composite photograph of small oval portraits of nurses Nellie Top, Lorena Marsden, Mary
Jolliete Glen, Matilda Rasmussen, Margaret Mason, Mira Fletcher, Bernice Hart, Rose Van Dame, Nell Poersel, Irene
Williams, and superintendent Lucy Pringle; a photograph of the commencement invitation; sixteen group and individual
snapshots of the nurses; and current biographical information. Also includes photographs of the exteriors of Minor
Hospital and the nurses' residence. The residence was on the southeast corner of Seneca and Boylston Streets.
|
1913; circa 1950 |
41-46 | Class of 1914
Includes twelve small portraits of students Ina M. Houze, Hannah Hall, Coral E. Vader, Bessie Kennedy,
Sophia M. Tanck, Irene Ms Givern, Lucile Jennison, Lennah Parker, Eleanor Patteson, Hilda J. Smailes, Margaret
Robertson, and Luella Webster, and one portrait of superintendent Lucy Pringle; sixteen informal snapshots of the
nurses; a photograph of the commencement invitation; and current biographical information on class members.
|
1914; circa 1950 |
47-50 |
Class of 1915
Includes a composite photo of nurses Dorothy A. Preston, Gene Marie Fuller, Edna Neil Smith, Margaret
Metcalfe Bothwell, Emily Elizabeth Ogilvie and Eve Goode and superintendent Lucy Pringle; a photograph of the
commencement invitation, four snapshots of the nurses, and current biographical information.
|
1915; circa 1950 |
53-57 | Class of 1916
Includes small portraits of ten of the eleven students listed: Marie Morrison, Vivian Easton Wickwire,
Mary Alice Smith, Vera Van Tine, Susie May Meadowcroft, Rosa Mae Stanhope, Laura O. Sund, Mabel Elizabeth Holmes,
Florence Lindsay Tucker, Mary L. Tope, and Nellie Robitaille; photographs of the commencement invitation, ten snapshots
of nurses and one photo of the Samuel and Jessie Kenney Presbyterian Home; and current biographical information.
|
1916; circa 1950 |
59-64 |
Class of 1917
Includes one composite photo with small oval portraits of nurses Edna Bridges, Ina Grace Soutar, Grace
Barnard, Margaret Castlio, Esther Julia Anderson, Ruth Elena Cunningham, Ruth Dearborn, Helen Beeler, Catherine Forbes
Bothwell, and superintendent Lucy Pringle; a photograph of the commencement invitation; nine snapshots of the nurses
and a group photograph of nurses posing with superintendent Lucy Pringle; and current biographical information about
the nurses.
|
1917; circa 1950 |
66-69 | Class of 1918
Includes small portraits of eight of the nine nurses listed: Caroline Parker, Addie Algier, Ester
Joslin, Inez Davis, Eva Johnson, Ruth E. Metcalfe, Betty Blakinstone, Ruth Clegg, Charlotte Jones (missing); a
photograph of the commencement invitation; a snapshot of Ruth Dearborn and Ester Joslin; and current biographical
information.
|
1918; circa 1950 |
70-75 | Class of 1919
Includes small photographs of seven of eight class members: Margaret G. Creasy, Ester Edwards, Edith A.
Christensen, Hazel M. Crooks, Leah F. Babcock, Hannah E. Hughes, Lucille M. Hohn, Ruth C.Gilson (missing); photographs
of the commencement invitation and program; nine snapshots; and current biographical information.
|
1919; circa 1950 |
76-83 | Class of 1920
Includes eleven small photographs of Ruth Morgan, Georgia Stewart, Yuanita Horstman, Helen McLean, Ruth
Tait, Jessie Jolliffe, Berneice Jones, Bernice Jamieson, Gladys Buckley, and Marjorie Thornton; photograph of the
commencement invitation; photographs of the Minor Private Hospital School for Nurses curriculum for 1919-1920; twenty
snapshots of the nurses at work and recreation; and current biographical information.
|
1920; circa 1950 |
84-94 | Class of 1921
Includes eight small photographs of nurses Ada B. Cloukie, Helen Dorety, Lillian May Sain, Emma Haworth,
Enid Bell, Catherine E. Johnson, Zita Mescher, and Elsie Scott; photographs of the commencement invitation and program;
nineteen snapshots of the nurses; photographs of a dance card for 1921 graduates; and current biographical
information.
|
1921; circa 1950 |
95-101 | Class of 1922
Includes fifteen small photographs of nurses Rose G. Fine, Winnifred G. Little, Ida M. McEwan, Alice M.
Carroll, Borghild O. Winter, Bee. E Johnson, Fannie E. Burrows, Frances A. Lanches, Ethel Eaden, Dorothy Minnis, Sadie
A. Moores, Margaret E, Bateman, Olive Eadie, Mary E. Carhart, and Ethel M. Nordquist; photographs of the commencement
invitation and program; seventeen snapshots of the nurses; and current biographical information.
|
1922; circa 1950 |
103-108 | Class of 1923
Includes nine small oval portraits of nurses Gertrude Mae Williams, Lena Hyacinth Lennan, Harriet
Margaret Goodhead, Lillian Ester Niemela, Margaret Jeanette Porter, Florence Gilbert Unwin, Sara Anne Walden, Jessie
Virginia Ibex, and Marie Wilderman; photographs of commencement program; 21 snapshots of the nurses; and current
biographical information.
|
1923; circa 1950 |
109-112 | Class of 1924
Includes nine small photographs of Elsie Grondal, Margaret Mercer, Freda Bess Wray, Isabel Hodding,
Dorothy Jeffares, Alma Bishop, Yolande Sanders, Loure Duke, and Margaret Larson; photographs of the commencement
invitation and program; nine snapshots; and current biographical information.
|
1924; circa 1950 |
113-118 | Class of 1925
Includes a group photograph of nurses Marjorie Agnes Graves, Elda May Hardin, Kate Constance Jay, Lydia
Weiger, Birdie Catharine Chamberlain, Llellwyn Virginia Hagan, Ruth Fallis, Josephine Raab, Margaret Ellen Murray,
Lydia Gwendolyn Jones, Lilly M. Jones, Edith Bell MacDonald, and Helen Petit; photographs of the commencement
invitation and program; sixteen snapshots; a clipping about five of the nurses winning a First Aid contest; and current
biographical information.
|
1925; circa 1950 |
119-122 | Class of 1926
Includes a composite photograph with small portrait of students Beatrice Turtle, Lutie Gough, Nancy
Shore, Hope Lyman, Matilda Fiegle, and superintendent Caroline E. Davis surrounding an image of the Minor Hospital
building; a photograph of the commencement program; seven snapshots; and current biographical information.
|
1926; circa 1950 |
123-128 | Class of 1927
Includes twelve small portraits of nurses Olive Claire Adams, Beulah Muriel Crawford, Myrtle Adelia
Harmon, Helene Jane Newland, Elizabeth May Moran, Edith May McDaniel, Barbara Layton Freer, Frankie Esther Hicks,
Georgia Beatrice McGee, Jean Elizabeth Greer, Georgia Kathleen Moss, and Evelyn Louise Johnson; a photograph of the
commencement program; thirteen snapshots; and current biographical information.
|
1927; circa 1950 |
129-133 | Class of 1928
Includes a group photograph of nurses Ann Marie Barkley, Sara Eleanor Morris, Viola Bertha Hunziker,
Hattie Margaret Meyer, Beulah Cathern Nixon, Mary Virginia Linton, Luella Ruth Griswold, Lou Ella Elise Nelson, and
superintendent Carolyn Davis; photographs of the commencement invitation and program; six snapshots; and current
biographical information.
|
1928; circa 1950 |
135-141 | Classes of 1929 and 1930
The listing of the Class of 1929 is captioned "Minor's Unfinished Symphony," possibly due to the closing
of Minor Private Hospital in 1928. One caption indicates that four of the "1929's" finished their training at Seattle
General Hospital. Includes two group photographs with students Betty Frank, Naoma Scott, Amie McKee, June Tyler,
Jeanette Byford, Ruth Cleland, Kay Hart, Bertha Hart, Louise Preston, Gertrude Lewis, Martha Short, Verla Miller, and
Jane McNickol. Includes fifteen snapshots and Class of 1929 and Class of 1930 current biographical information
|
1929; circa 1950 |
142 | Class Reporters
Small oval portraits of "Class Reporters from the years 1910 through 1929. In order, they are Edith
Goodrich, Ellen Ellis, Ina Jenks Buck, Jolly Glen, Ina Groat, Gene Shugren, Mary Alice Smith, Catherine Mallory, Grace
Cox, Ruth Clegg, Leah Rutherford, Hazel Holderness, Marjorie Bilworth, Jessie Hutchinson, Catherine Lundgren, Margaret
Bateman, Lena Bosselman, Margaret Dawley, Josephine Drummey, Birdie Ghiglione, Hope Wise, Georgia McGee, Anne Greer,
Betty Moburg, and June Beezer.
|
1910-1929 |
143 | Photograph of Minor Private Hospital exterior with group of nurses in
front of building |
1917 |
143 | Photograph of Minor Hospital nurses' residence exterior with group of
nurses in front |
1918 |
144 | Group photograph of women and men posing in costume at Dutch theme party
|
1916 |
144 | Composite photograph of a party at Dr. and Birdie Ghiglione's
residence |
1941 |
145-145 | Snapshots of nurses holding babies
Eighteen photographs, depicting nurses Margaret Bateman, Rose Fine, Ester (Pete) Anderson, Catherine
Johnson, Juanita Horstman, Jolly Glen, Tillie Fiegle, Lydia Weiger, Ada B. Cloukey, Yolande Norton, Margaret Mason,
Helen Pettit, Eva Johnson, Peggy Wood, G. Williams, Ruth Forsberg, Miss Dawson, and Georgie Moss.
|
circa 1920 |
147 | Nurses and supervisors posing outdoors
Five snapshots
|
circa 1920 |
149-150 | Photographs of "The Capsule," Official Bulletin of Minor Hospital
Alumnae 5 photographs
|
circa 1930 |
151-153 | circa 1920 | |
154 |
Seattle Daily Times clipping, "War on Arctic Influenza"
Group photograph of nurses and doctors posing outdoors in native parkas
|
circa 1920 |
156-159 | Dedication to Minor Hospital doctors and doctors' autographs |
1950-1952 |
161-168 | Photographs of Minor Hospital doctors 44 photographs
Doctors depicted include Dr. William Glasglow, Dr. John Lundy, Dr. James Thompson, Dr. Alexander
Peacock, Dr. E.W. Young, Dr. J.K. Holloway, Dr. Arthur Gray, Dr. George Beeler, Dr. Bruce Elmore, Dr. Houston, Dr.
Hunter, Dr. P.C. Irwin, Dr. Carroll, Dr. Hancock, Ira McLemore, Glenn Rotton, E.E. Beckett, Copeland Plummer, Edward
Fick, Hubbard T. Buckner, H. Eugene Allen, William C. Kantner, H.J. Wyckoff, Dr. Louis Maxson, Clark Goss, Dr. C.E.
Watts. Also includes a newspaper obituary for Dr. A.J. Ghiglione.
|
circa 1915-1950 |
169 | Cover of
RN Journal
Photograph of cap and pin of Minor Private Hospital Training School
|
1949 February |
170-171 | Photographs of Red Cross and military nurses 3 photographs
|
circa 1917 |
172-180 | Newspaper clipping and magazine articles featuring Minor Hospital staff
|
1920-1950 |
181 | History of the Minor Hospital 3 pages, typewritten
|
circa 1950 |
182-189 | Photographs of Minor Hospital Alumnae banquets, meetings and
events
Thirteen group and individual photographs
|
circa 1935-1950 |
190-192 | Photographs Minor Hospital Alumnae nurses and doctors 9 photographs
|
circa 1950 |
193-195 | Photographs of Minor Hospital Alumnae banquets, meetings and
events 8 photographs
|
circa 1951 |
197 | Dedication to Enid Bell Eriksson, 1889-1949
Includes a photograph and biography of Eriksson.
|
1950 March |
198-199 | Newspaper clippings featuring Minor Hospital nurses |
circa 1925-1950 |
200 | Nurses and doctors seated outdoors 2 photographs
|
1952 September |
Loose photographsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Folder | ||
1 | Minor Hospital Alumnae nurses at group social events 5 photographs
|
circa 1950 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Alumni--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Nurses--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Nursing schools--United States
Corporate Names
- Minor Private Hospital (Seattle, Wash.)
Geographical Names
- First Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
- Seattle (Wash.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Ephemera
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Ericksson, Enid Bell, 1921-1949 (creator)