Wood framed rectangular colour nurses alumna 50 year reunion photograph of Hamilton General Hospital Nurses Training School Class of 1946; photograph depicts 26 women arranged in two rows with the front row seated on two couches; nurses are in front of large burgundy curtain; clear glass glaze at f…
Wood framed rectangular colour nurses alumna 50 year reunion photograph of Hamilton General Hospital Nurses Training School Class of 1946; photograph depicts 26 women arranged in two rows with the front row seated on two couches; nurses are in front of large burgundy curtain; clear glass glaze at front and moulded wooden frame painted black with silver coloured trim; photograph mounted inside frame with black card paper with gold coloured border; thick light brown cardboard backing secured with grey metal brad nails and staples; grey metal mounting wire stretched horizontally across back and attached with grey metal eye screws.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Donor is son of original owner: Verna Mae Sproule (1 May 1922 – 2003), Hamilton General Hospital Training School Class 1946. Miss Sproule worked at Kingston General Hospital as scrub nurse for Dr. Bingham.
Minor scratching and chipping of paint all over frame; minor scratching of backing board, especially around nails and staples; minor adhesive residue on glaze near top proper right corner.
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Documents
Website
Reference Comments
Donor file 010.051
“Hamilton General Hospital.” History of Health Care in Hamilton, McMaster University, 2020.
Research Facts
This is an Alumna reunion of the Hamilton General Hospital Training School Class of 1946. Verna Mae Sproule (1 May 1922 – 2003), the mother of the artifact donor, was a member of the graduating class; Sproule also briefly worked at Kingston General Hospital as a scrub nurse for Dr. Bingham. The donor indicates that this was likely the 50 year reunion.
The Hamilton General Hospital training school for nurses was an apprenticeship style program that began in 1890; the program was initially two years, but was expanded to a three-year program led by the head nurse and physicians; it involved formal instruction and on the job training; the Hamilton General Hospital School of Nursing discontinued in 1973 when Mohawk College took over the program.