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Nurse Mary Arnold

c. 1910
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Overview

A black and white photograph of the head and shoulders of a woman who has her hair drawn back off her face, she is standing behind a chair with her folded hands resting across the back of the chair. The woman is wearing dark shift which has motifs of a butterfly on the neckline and the cuffs of the dress and she is wearing a white shirt underneath the dress. The photograph is in a black painted frame.

Historical information

Until the Government in 1912 insisted that midwives be registered a number of private Nurses advertised accommodation for Ladies 'during accouchements' one of the first to arrive in town was Nurse May Arnold in 1904. In December 1909 Nurse Mary Arnold opened a private hospital 'Kerak' on the corner of Aberdeen and Avon Streets. It was named after a Mission Station in Palestine where she had worked for 7 years. This information was taken from pages 235 and 236 from the book 'A Place to Meet' by Merle Bignell, University of West Australia Press for the Shire of Katanning, Published 1981.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-202-HSP1987.118
Item type
Photographs
Material
Glass
Photographic Paper
Wood
Width
11.3000 cm
Height or length
16.4000 cm
Inscriptions and markings

Below the photograph on a typed label is 'Nurse Mary Arnold'

Contextual Information

The term accouchement means 'the act of giving birth'.

Year
c. 1910
Copyright category
Date of creation +70 years
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