Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Collection
Category
Archival Items
Communication
Business
Ephemera
Nursing
Nursing Uniforms
Classification
Archival Items
Communication
Business
Ephemera
Nursing
Nursing Uniforms
Accession Number
005036020
Description
A newspaper clipping from the Globe and Mail describing nurse's caps at different hospitals; features text and 9 black and white photographs of nurses and nurse's caps.
A newspaper clipping from the Globe and Mail describing nurse's caps at different hospitals; features text and 9 black and white photographs of nurses and nurse's caps.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae via Marilyn Boston.
Printed on front of clipping: "THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1958 // Easter Parade on Hospital Rounds"; printed under large image on front of clipping: "Caps of many nations:".
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-3 Box 16
Length
56.0 cm
Width
40.0 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 56.0 cm x Width 40.0 cm
Condition Remarks
Significant yellowing of at top left hand corner; creased many times; tears around edges.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
Website
Reference Comments
"Easter Parade on Hospital Rounds", The Globe and Mail, April 5, 1958
Canadian Museum of History, "Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps," https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/infirm/inint01e.html
Research Facts
"Not surprisingly, every nursing school claims a distinctive cap or headdress, and their graduates bear them across country and overseas." Each hospital or school designed its own nursing uniform in order to convey a certain image. They were both functional and symbolic. A black band on a nurse's cap indicated that she was a trained graduate nurse, whereas no band, or sometimes other colours, indicated different levels of training, working up to the final black band.