Barbara Tanis Fetzer photograph album

Creator:
Barbara Tanis Fetzer
Date [inclusive]:
circa 1940-1945
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 38 pages)
Access:

Open.

Call Number:
M-0062
Control Number:
13839311
Abstract:

Photograph album created by Barbara Tanis Fetzer documenting her last year at the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, 1941-1942. 

Cite as:
Barbara Tanis Fetzer Photograph Album, Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library
Historical/Biographical Note:

Barbara Tanis graduated from the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing (later the Columbia University School of Nursing) in 1942.  After her marriage to Eugene L. Fetzer in November 1943 she appears to have left the nursing field.  She was born August 19, 1921 and was raised in Schenectady, New York.  She and her husband had two children and lived in Stamford, Connecticut.  She died December 6, 2015.

Scope and Content:

Photograph album created by Barbara Tanis Fetzer documenting her last year at the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, 1941-1942.  Included are images of classmates, faculty, doctors, the School of Nursing alumni day, and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.  A smaller number of photos are of family members including her husband, Eugene L. Fetzer, in military uniform. Album covers missing.

Provenance:

Purchase, 2019 (accession #2019.009)