1887 Nursing Class
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The four nursing graduates of Flower Mission Training School for Nurses class of 1887 in a ward of the Indianapolis City Hospital. The initial class sizes were quite small, beginning with the first graduating class of five students in 1885. The City Hospital took over management of the school in 1894, which closed its doors in 1980 after training 2,750 nurses.
Image courtesy of IUPUI University Library Special Collections and Archives.
This file appears in: Indianapolis Flower Mission
Indianapolis Flower Mission
A women’s charity organization, the Indianapolis Flower Mission served the sick poor of the Circle City for over one hundred years. Part of a national movement, the charity began in 1876 when Alice Wright, the daughter of a prominent railroad…