Nursing The Special Collections Department of Georgia State University's William Russell Pullen Library holds a variety of materials pertaining to nurses and the nursing profession, ranging from an early manual by Florence Nightingale to the records of Grady Hospital School of Nursing, 1900-1984. The majority of archival materials are from the Southeast and especially Georgia. Brief descriptions summarize these archival holdings, providing the name of the collection, its span in years, a short note on the contents, and its extent measured in linear feet.
All materials are available for use unless noted otherwise.
What It Is, and What It Is Not. The collection consists of records pertaining to the mass resignation of nurses at DeKalb General Hospital in 1968-1969. The records include correspondence, reports, press releases, newsletters, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, and scrapbooks related specifically to the events at the DeKalb General Hospital and the role played by the Georgia State Nurses Association. Also included are notes and correspondence written by or pertaining to Margaret Ford, Director of Nursing at DeKalb General Hospital, and Mary Osburne, one of the nurses who resigned from DeKalb General Hospital. In addition, the collection contains publications and newspaper clippings regarding collective bargaining, labor disputes in Atlanta in 1970, and other nursing labor disputes in the United States.