Records, 1881-1983.

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Records, 1881-1983.

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The immediate office file of the Director, Navy Nurse Corps contains primarily materials created after the establishment of the Nurse Corps in 1908 with some scattered earlier documentation dating back to 1881. Correspondence, articles, reports, and other items in this collection are arranged in the following series: the papers of Josephine Beatrice Bowman, who was Director of Nurse Corps from 1922 to 1938; statistical notebooks and daybooks from 1908 to 1977; an alphabetically arranged subject file; printed material; and photographs. Also included are later additions from the Navy Nurse Corps.

19 cubic ft.

Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7678348

Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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Feeny, Elizabeth.

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Bowman, Josephine Beatrice, 1881-1971

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Josephine Beatrice Bowman was the third superintendent of the United States Navy Nurse Corps. Josephine Beatrice Bowman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on 19 December 1881. She graduated from nurses' training at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1904 and soon enrolled with the American Red Cross Nursing Service. In the spring of 1908, Bowman took part in the first Red Cross disaster relief operation after a tornado caused extensive damage around Hattiesburg, Missis...

United States. Navy Nurse Corps

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The Navy Nurse Corps was authorized by Congress on 13 May 1908 after several years of legislative effort by Navy officials. Patterened after the Army Nurse Corps, the Navy Nurse Corps consisted of a Superintendent in charge of 20 nurses. By the eve of American entry into World War I, they numbered 446. After rising to a wartime high of 1,386, their number was reduced to about 500 by 1928. In 1939, the Naval Reserve Act authorized the recruitment of women into the Reserve Nurse Coprs. More than 1...

Knowles, Marie B.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...