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[Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Photo Print

[Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.]

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Few pictures on this board show a nursing facility, and this one records a visiting nurses' building in Detroit with a group gathered in front of it. Visiting nurse associations spread through American cities in the early 1900s, sending trained nurses into homes to care for the sick. The record possibly links the scene to the Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment, which met in Detroit in 1914, so the building may have sheltered visitors that summer. The negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which documented the city and its surroundings around 1905 to 1915.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreGroup portraits.Portrait photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Possibly associated with the Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment, 1914. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043796. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsNurses. Lodging houses.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70561

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