Mary Ann Whitaker Robinson Student Nursing Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Robinson, Mary Ann Whitaker (nurse)
label: Names
content: Memorial Hospital (Wilmington, Delaware)
label: Names
content: Philadelphia General Hospital
topic: label: Topic
content: Hospital care -- 1950-1990
label: Topic
content: Nursing -- 1950-1990
label: Topic
content: Nursing students -- 1950-1990
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Mary Ann Robinson (nee Whitaker) donated this collection in December 1991.
creator: label: Creator
content: Robinson, Mary Ann Whitaker (nurse)
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content: Mary Ann Whitaker Robinson Student Nursing Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Pamphlets, photographs, news clippings, and a student yearbook documenting Robinson's career as a student and nurse at Wilmington Delaware's Memorial Hospital.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: During her summer holidays while in high school, Mary Ann Whitaker worked at Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, as a nurse's aid.  This cemented her long‑standing desire to become a nurse and she entered Memorial Hospital's school of nursing on September 6, 1955.  In 1956, she earned her cap and bib after completing her probationary period.  She graduated in 1958 and in October of that successfully passed the Delaware State professional licensing examination to become a Registered Nurse.  Soon afterwards, she married and became Mary Ann Robinson.  She has worked in hospitals in Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia in obstetrics, critical care units and infection control.  As of 1991, she was employed at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia.
 
In 1985, the 80 year old Memorial Hospital in Wilmington was closed and the building demolished to prepare the site for a twin high‑rise condominium.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-1985
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Papers were transferred to the Archives Center in August 1993.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0499
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Clippings
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographic prints
label: Type
content: Pamphlets
label: Type
content: Yearbooks
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: School yearbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Grace Meyer, August 30, 1994
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographic prints -- Silver gelatin -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Pamphlets -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Yearbooks -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: School yearbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The materials mainly concern the nursing program at Memorial Hospital and Miss Whitaker's years as a student there between 1955 and 1958.  Included are residence policies, student government regulations, pamphlets about the "Guild of St. Barnabas for Nurses," and other materials related to the school's history.  There are photoprints of Miss Whitaker and her classmates as a probationer and at her graduation ceremony, along with a 1959 Yearbook from the school.  Of particular interest are two original drawings of Miss Whitaker done by a patient while an affiliate student at the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1957.  Also included is an autobiographical narrative prepared by Mrs. Robinson in 1991.  Lastly, the collection includes photocopies of newsclippings about the 1985 demolition of Memorial Hospital.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Whitaker's student nurse's uniform is in the Division of Medicine and Science.