The Forgotten Frontier
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection / Series 3: Public Health and Nursing Films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black and white, silent, print, 16mm; 1635 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 222.55-1
label: Container
content: Reel OF 222.55-2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000025098]
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content: Moving Images [31983000025106]
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Summary: Documentary about the Frontier Nursing Service, founded in 1925 which provided child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health, and emergency surgery in the Appalachian Mountains. Filmed in Hazard County, KY. 

Non-accession #: 1984.3074. Print donated by Marvin Breckenridge (Mrs. Jefferson) Patterson. See also The Road.