Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin. Public Health Nursing Section: Indian Records
Inclusive Dates: 1926-1962 (bulk 1926-1940)

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Public Health Nursing Section

Call Number: Series 2207; PH 3947

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes), 78 photographs, 25 negatives, and 1 transparency

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records, mainly 1926-1940, including correspondence with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, state Board of Health personnel, county health committees, and public health nurses working among American Indians in Wisconsin. Included are evaluations of nursing services as well as reports concerning health services, diseases and nutritional problems, and social and living conditions among American Indians. There is a small amount of material on the use of the drug peyote. The photographs show the activities of the section, including images of patients, doctors, and nurses.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02207

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