Nurse's Cap, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1945
notes: label: Description
content: This organdy nurse's cap was worn by Elizabeth Brizindine, a 1945 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. Most nursing schools had their own distinct caps which were given out upon graduation. They were often a point of pride, a prestigious symbol designating ones academic credentials, not unlike t-shirts or sweatshirts with the name of one's university emblazoned across the chest. Once men entered the nursing profession in greater numbers in the early 1970s, caps became less important and are now considered a memento for those graduate nurses who choose to purchase them.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Nursing
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Work
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content: National Treasures exhibit
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0171.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0171
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0171.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nurse's cap
label: Object Name
content: cap, nursing
label: Object Name
content: cap, nurses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: organdy (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ruffling (edging material)
label: Physical Description
content: organdy (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 7 in x 5 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 17.78 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored in box: 6 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in x 8 in; 15.875 cm x 20.0025 cm x 20.32 cm