Frontier Nursing Service collection, 1902-2006

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Frontier Nursing Service collection, 1902-2006

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This collection is a continuation of the University of Kentucky's previously accessioned Frontier Nursing Service records (85M1). Materials span the years 1902-2006 and document the organization and development of the Frontier Nursing Service. Included are minutes, reports, publications, promotional materials, guestbooks, scrapbooks, memorabilia, correspondence, financial files, and medical records.

135 cubic ft.

University of Kentucky Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8001340

University of Kentucky Libraries

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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 Graduate School of Midwifery.

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Community-Based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program.

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Beasley, W.B. Rogers.

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Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926

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Agnes Smith Lewis, along with her twin sister, Margaret Dunlop Gibson, was a scholar of Semitic Languages. Born in Scotland and educated by their father the sisters traveled to the Middle East and Egypt several times before eventually settling in Cambridge, England. In 1887, Agnes married Samuel Savage Lewis, married James Young Gibson, classicist and librarian. In 1892 they visited Egypt again, and at St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai they famously discovered the Sinaitic palimpsest – the ol...

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...