Kitty Gair collection [graphic], ca. 1880-2002 1930's-1980's.

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Kitty Gair collection [graphic], ca. 1880-2002 1930's-1980's.

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The collection consists of personal and professional papers and photographs of Kitty Gair, her husband, Angus Campbell Gair, and her in-laws, Annie and Alexander Gair (Scottish immigrants). Two scrapbooks, dedicated to the career of Dorothy Russell contain biographies and photos of employees of the Alaska Dept. of Health, Alaska Health Dept. and the MV Hygiene. A signed guestbook for the MV Hygiene (1946-1947), approximately 1,200 color slides and four reels of film are included with the collection. Images of the Hygiene, employees and coastal villages are found in her slides and photographs. Among her personal papers are degrees, awards, certificates, and numerous recognitions of service.

3.7 linear ft. (6 boxes)

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7677578

Alaska State Library

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Alaska. Dept. of Health

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Hygiene (Ship)

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Gair, Kitty

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Catherine Frances Smulling Gair ("Kitty") was born Nov. 4, 1912, in Altoona, PA. She graduated Jefferson Medical College Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1934, received a Public Health Nurse Certificate in 1939, a B.S. Ed. from the Univ. of Penn. in 1943, and a M.S. in Child Psychiatric Nursing from Boston Univ. in 1963. Kitty Smulling came to Alaska in 1942, and worked as a public health nurse for the AK Health Dept. until 1945. From 1946 to 1951 she worked aboard the AK Territorial Healt...

Whitney, Dorothy, 1902-1982

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Alaska. Health Dept

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