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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix to Mary Horner]. 1 item (2 pages on 1 sheet) ; sheet 20 x 13 cm. | Handwritten letter from Dorothea Dix about a recently discharged nurse and asking when the hospital will close.- Date: 1861
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix to W.H. Seward]. 1 item (2 pages on 1 sheet) ; sheet 19 x 12 cm. | Undated, handwritten letter from Dorothea Dix asking W.H. Seward to meet with her at the Congress Library.- Date: 1861
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix to Surgeon Henry Jaynes]. 1 item (3 pages on 1 sheet) ; sheet 21 x 13 cm. | Undated, handwritten letter from Dorothea Dix to Union Surgeon Henry Jaynes in which she writes that Mrs. Everingham was insufficiently paid for time served as a nurse at Seminary Hospital, Camp Letterman, and Washington, D.C., and asks that this oversight be corrected.- Date: 1863
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix, Washington, D.C., to Mary Horner]. 1 item (1 pages on 1 sheet) ; sheet 24 x 19 cm. | Handwritten letter from Dorothea Dix about physician contracts.- Date: 1863
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix, Office of Women Nurses, U.S. Hospital Service, Washington, D.C., to Miss Chamberlain]. 1 item (1 page on 1 sheet) ; sheet 21 x 13 cm. | Handwritten letter from Union nurse Dorothea Dix, Superintendent U.S. Hospital Nurses, to Miss Chamberlain to request that she come to Washington without delay if she is ready "hard life."- Date: 1864
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix to Rebecca Pomroy, Columbian College Hospital, Washington, D.C.] 1 item (2 pages on 1 sheet) ; sheet 21 x 13 cm. | Handwritten letter in which Dix asks Pomroy to give employment to Miss Gilson at Columbian College Hospital, Washington, D.C.- Contributor: DIX, Dorothea Lynde
- Date: 1862
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix acknowledging receipt of a book containing a map of Washington, probably written at the Library of Congress]. 1 item (1 page on 1 sheet) ; sheet 18 x 12 cm.- Date: 1853
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Nurse Dorothea L. Dix, Superintendent for Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War] 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 95 x 64 mm (carte de visite format)- Contributor: Warren, G. K. (George Kendall)
- Date: 1861
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Photo, Print, DrawingMiss D.L. Dix, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows Dorothea L. Dix, Superintendent of Army Nurses for the Union Army, holding a book and sitting in a room with a medical bag on the floor.- Date: 1865
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Dorothea Dix, Superintendent U.S. Hospital Nurses, Office of Women Nurses, U.S. Hospital Service, Washington, D.C., to Rebecca Pomroy] 1 item ; sheet 20 x 13 cm. | Handwritten letter in which Dorothea Dix reports that she is very busy but would like to hear from Rebecca Pomroy.- Contributor: DIX, Dorothea Lynde
- Date: 1861
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Rebecca Pomroy, Columbian College Hospital, Washington, D.C., to Almira] 1 item ; sheet 19 x 14 cm. | Handwritten letter in which Rebecca Pomroy describes her recent illness, caring for wounded soldiers, her service at the White House, and her faith; names mentioned include: George, probably her son; little Georgie, possibly Almira's son; Mrs. Mason; Dr. Stern, Miss (Dorothea) Dix; Mr. Fuller, possibly Almira's husband; Mrs. (Mary Todd) Lincoln.- Contributor: Pomroy, Rebecca
- Date: 1862
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Rebecca Pomroy, White House, Washington, D.C., to Almira] 1 item ; sheet 20 x 24 cm. | Handwritten letter in which Rebecca Pomroy describes life at the White House with President and Mrs. Lincoln, her desire to continue working with soldiers at Columbian College Hospital, and her faith; names mentioned include: Miss (Dorothea) Dix; President Lincoln, Mrs. (Mary Todd) Lincoln, and Maria B[rown?].- Contributor: Pomroy, Rebecca
- Date: 1862
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Nurse Mary A.E. Keen of Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake Hospital, Fort Monroe, Virginia] 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 102 x 62 mm (carte de visite format) | Photograph shows identified Army nurse who worked from 1861 to 1865 under the jurisdiction of Dorothea Dix and later married Milton Woodworth.- Contributor: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries
- Date: 1862
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Nurse Mary A.E. Keen of Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake Hospital, Fort Monroe, Virginia] 1 photograph : ruby ambrotype ; plate 82 x 70 mm (sixth plate format), case 93 x 81 mm. | Photograph shows identified Army nurse who worked from 1861 to 1865 under the jurisdiction of Dorothea Dix and later married Milton Woodworth.- Date: 1861
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Nurse Mary A.E. Keen of Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake Hospital, Fort Monroe, Virginia] 1 photograph : ruby ambrotype ; plate 68 x 50 mm (ninth plate format), case 75 x 63 mm. | Photograph shows identified Army nurse who worked from 1861 to 1865 under the jurisdiction of Dorothea Dix and later married Milton Woodworth.- Date: 1862
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Nurse Mary A.E. Keen of Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake Hospital, Fort Monroe, Virginia] 1 photograph : hand-colored ambrotype ; plate 82 x 70 mm (sixth plate format), case 94 x 82 mm + manuscript fragment | Photograph shows identified Army nurse who worked from 1861 to 1865 under the jurisdiction of Dorothea Dix and later married Milton Woodworth.- Date: 1857
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter from Annie Bell, Harper's Ferry, Virginia, to her parents]. 1 item (4 pages on 1 sheet) ; sheet 21 x 13 cm. | Handwritten letter from nurse Annie Bell to her parents about Dorothea Dix, Miss Hall, Harriet Dada, and herself being forbidden from going to Aquia Creek to help injured soldiers, the suffering those hurt must endure without proper care, moving patients to a hospital in Frederick, and an acquaintance asking to…- Date: 1863
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Letter to nurse Mary A.E. Keen] 1 item ; sheet 21 x 13 cm. | Handwritten letter describing unbearable conditions at Seminary Hospital, Washington, D.C., written during the time when Keen served at Chesapeake Hospital, Fort Monroe, Virginia.- Contributor: DIX, Dorothea Lynde
- Date: 1864
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personal narrativeWilbur Scott Oles, Jr. Collection- War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
- Branch of Service: Navy
- Service Unit/Ship: USS Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67)
- Location of Service: Chicago, Illinois; European Theater; Pacific Theater
- Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/69835
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personal narrativeOreland Adolph Thornsjo Collection- War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
- Branch of Service: Navy
- Service Unit/Ship: USS Dorothea L. Dix (AP 67); USS O-6 (SS 67); USS Anthedon (AS 24); USS Sargo (SS 188)
- Location of Service: Chicago, Illinois; Little Creek, Virginia; Fort Pierce, Florida; England; France; Oran; Algeria; European Theater; Pacific Theater
- Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/118884
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Photo, Print, DrawingSt. Elizabeths Hospital, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC Data Page(s): 53- Contributor: Ford, Mike - U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (Ins) - Itle, Kenneth - Historic American Buildings Survey - U.S. Federal Security Agency (Fsa) - Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge - Franz, Shepherd Ivory - White, William - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Hhs) - Government Hospital for the Insane ... Ford, Mike - U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (Ins) - Itle, Kenneth - Historic American Buildings Survey - U.S. Federal Security Agency (Fsa) - Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge - Franz, Shepherd Ivory - White, William - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Hhs) - Government Hospital for the Insane - U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (Nimh) - Blackburn, I. W. - Slaton, Deborah - Foster, George - U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Hew) - Overholser, Winfred - DIX, Dorothea L. - U.S. Department of the Interior - Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions - Nichols, Charles H. - Richardson, Alonzo - Walter, Thomas Ustick - McPartland, Mary - U.S. General Services Administration (Gsa) - U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Penich, Tim - Godding, William - Kirkbride, Thomas
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Photo, Print, DrawingBryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.- Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
- Date: 2010-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.- Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
- Date: 2010-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.- Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
- Date: 2010-01-01