Ethel B. Miller collection, 1940-1941.

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Ethel B. Miller collection, 1940-1941.

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The Ethel B. Miller Collection consists of photographs and manuscripts spanning from ca. 1940-1941. The collection was produced by Ethel B. Miller during the years she spent at the Frontier Nursing Service as a midwife. The collection totals one cubic foot. The types of photographs in the collection are black and white of many different sizes featuring various aspects of the Frontier Nursing Service and of everyday mountain life. The manuscripts in the collection consist of various certifications of registered nursing awarded to Ethel B. Miller; various The Quarterly Bulletin of Frontier Nursing Service pamphlets; a newspaper article about an iron lung in which Miller is in the corresponding photograph; and pages from a notebook that include recipes to take care of illnesses and a story of the Little Piggies.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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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...

Miller, Ethel Beryl

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