Frontier Nursing Service, Washington Committee Records 1976-1994 (bulk 1981-1994)

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Frontier Nursing Service, Washington Committee Records 1976-1994 (bulk 1981-1994)

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Nursing service. Correspondence, minutes, membership rosters, and printed matter documenting the fund-raising activities of the Washington Committee of the Frontier Nursing Service, an organization based in Wendover, Kentucky, providing rural health care.

350 items; 1.5 containers; .5 linear feet

eng,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356292

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965

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In 1925, Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service to provide infant and maternal care in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. She was the granddaughter of Kentucky statesman and former vice-president of the United States, John Cabell Breckinridge. From the description of Letter, 1960, July 12. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 38488930 ...

Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. Washington Committee

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Washington Committee of the Frontier Nursing Service, an organization founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge and based in Wendover, Kentucky, providing family-centered, rural health care to patients in and around Leslie County, Kentucky, as well as the United States and the world, through the efforts of graduates of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. From the description of Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Washington Committee records, 1976-1994 (bulk 1988-1994). (Unkn...

Frontier Nursing Service, inc

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Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), originally known as the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, in rural Leslie County, Ky., in 1925. A member of a distinguished Kentucky family, Breckinridge began her nursing career in 1907. Following the deaths of her two small children, Breckinridge became a spokeswoman for the Children's Bureau in 1918. After the First World War she affiliated with the American Committee for Devastated France and bega...