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Photograph album documenting Patricia Hayes Keough's nursing education at the Bryn Mawr College Summer School of Nursing and the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing (later the Columbia University School of Nursing), 1943-1946.
History and Biography
Nurse. Patricia Hayes was educated at the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing (later the Columbia University School of Nursing) from which she was graduated in 1946. At the time she was a student Hayes was a resident of Newark, New Jersey. She later married Edward Keough and lived in Massachusetts.
Organization
Photograph album, titled “The Way We Were, 1943-1946,” documenting Patricia Hayes’ nursing school years. It opens with her time at the Bryn Mawr College Summer School of Nursing which she attended June-September, 1943. Images include buildings, faculty, students (including several African-American students), and classes. There are both candid snapshots and those taken by a professional photographer.
The remainder of the album (18 pages) are devoted to her years at the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, which she attended in 1943-1946. Pictures include postcards of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center where the School of Nursing was located; the Navy Day flotilla on the Hudson River (October 27, 1945); Christmas celebrations at Babies and Presbyterian Hospitals (1945); students relaxing in Maxwell Hall, the School of Nursing dormitory; images of Medical Center buildings; candid snapshots of students; her 1946 commencement ceremony; and the head shots of her fellow graduates that appeared in the 1946 yearbook, Starch and Stripes. While the album pages often have titles, individuals are only rarely identified.
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Administrative Information
Gift of the Columbia University School of Nursing, 2016.