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Uniforms, Caps and Badges

UNIFORMS

• Bucking the System: The Medical Museum: University of Iowa Health - Nurse's Cap circa 1944 Senior student nurses added a quarter-inch black band to their caps, and graduate nurses replaced that with a half-inch thick band.

• Memories - Nell Espie - The nurses were issued with warm slacks, shirts, boots and socks and battle dress jacket for the winter. Regular grey ward dress and veil was worn on the ward

• NMH.UK: History of uniforms - A pictorial history of nurses and midwives uniforms in the UK

• Nurses and the US Navy, 1917-1919 - This page features views of Red Cross and Army Nurses' uniforms during the World War I era.

• Nurses Uniforms Past and Present -Provides a growing image gallery of Nurses Uniforms from the '30s to the present. An interesting resource for historians and costume designers. Includes useful links.

• On-line Scrapbook for UVA Medical and Nursing Alumni - Time lines 1935-1999 with photos

• The Children's Hospital of Denver Virtual History - Nurses' uniforms in the 1940s included the classic-style nurses' hat; spotless white shoes were also required.

• Tippets to Scrubs - History of Nurses Uniforms, cross-referenced with many of the images on Nurses Uniforms Past and Present.

• US Army Nurse Corps Uniforms - A Century of Leadership and caring for America's Army, 1901-2001

• What Army Nurses Wore - Large series of photos depicting nursing attire in the Civil War

• WWII Uniforms - Nurses Aide Service Medium blue chambray pinafore worn with short-sleeved white blouse. ... Veil or Coif as described under Hospital & Recreation Service

CAPS

• Hat Lore - The Nurse's Cap: Symbol of Authority or Servitude?

• Nurses Caps - I've always felt that the Nurses' Cap provides the finishing touch to the uniform, as well as identifying the nurse's rank and grade.

• Nursing History Nursing Caps - and uniforms and nursing history in general. Its interesting reading, below are some links.

• One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps - Nursing" in AH Jones, ed., Images of Nurses (Philadelphia: University ... Nursing Uniforms: Romantic Idea ... or Instrument of Social Change?"

BADGES

• Hat & Cap Badges of The South African Military Nursing Service - The Booker Collection is a selection of military badges, including many Australian and NZ, drawn or collected by Chief W/Officer Herbert H. Booker 2nd of Tujunga, California.
  Nursing Badges - MSN Group run by Fran Biley

• Short history of Badge adopted by RLH league of Nurses. - The Royal London Hospital League of Nurses adopted the Nurses Training School Badge as its emblem when mergers led to a re-design. History of the badge Motto Lost badges  

• USAAF Flight Nurse Badges WW2 - from Aviation Wings and Badges of World War II

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