Nurse's Cap
date: label: date made
content: ca 1991
notes: label: Description
content: Maria Jayme was born January 14th, 1971 in General Santos City, Philippines and received a nursing degree from the San Pedro College of Nursing in Davao, Philippines in 1991. Maria received this nurse’s cap during the graduation capping ceremony. In 1994 she immigrated to the United States and worked as a registered nurse in Florida. Between 1965 and 1988 more than 70,000 foreign nurses came to the United States. 25,000 Filipina nurses provided a critical source of labor for hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Florida, California, Texas, and Massachusetts.
topic: label: Subject
content: Nursing
label: Subject
content: Immigration
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Reyna J. Legaspi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0218.01
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0218.01
label: accession number
content: 2007.0218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nurse's cap
label: Object Name
content: cap, nurses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 20 cm x 10 in; 3 1/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 25.4 cm