The papers are open without restrictions. Columbia University does not hold copyright to her autobiography.
Papers of Virginia Shattuck King (Nursing, 1944) including photographs, programs, scrapbook pages, and an autobiography.
History and Biography
Virginia Shattuck King was born in Brooklyn, New York, February 8, 1921, and raised in New Jersey. She received a B.S. degree in 1944 from the Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University School of Nursing (now the Columbia University School of Nursing). She later became a schoolteacher. She married Stuart G. King on May 26, 1946. Virginia S. King died on April 15, 2008 in Palm Bay, Florida, survived by three sons and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Organization
Most of the collection documents her time as a student at the Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University School of Nursing, 1942-1944. Included are photographs of her and her classmates, programs to School of Nursing events, two letters to her, and 6 disbound scrapbook leaves with both newspaper clippings and photographs relating to her nursing school years.
In addition, there is her nursing cap and a copy of her self-published autobiography and family history, From Then…to Who Knows When: An Anecdotal History of My Life, My Total Family Background and That of My Children (circa 1996). Of the volume’s 585 pages, about half are genealogical charts.
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Administrative Information
Gift of Virginia Shattuck King, 1998 (accession #98.04.24).