Contributed by Northern Light Mercy Hospital
Description
The Queen's Hospital (later Mercy Hospital) School of Nursing opened on January 6, 1920, just two years after the hospital began operations.
In 1930, the first public graduation was held with four nurses receiving their diplomas. In 1933, eleven women graduated from the program, six are shown in this photograph: Agnes Coughlin, Helen Doucette, Mary Lawlor, Ruth Mahar, Pauline Maheu, and Marie Michaud.
About This Item
- Title: Queen's Hospital School of Nursing graduates, Portland, 1933
- Creator: Mercy Hospital
- Creation Date: 1931
- Subject Date: 1931
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 10.2 cm
- Collection: Mercy Hospital Historic Archive
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Catholic Church. Diocese of Portland (Me.)
- Group portraits--Maine--Portland
- Health care personnel--Maine--Portland
- Health education
- Hospitals--Maine--Portland
- Medical education
- Mercy Hospital (Portland, Me.)
- Nurses--Maine--Portland
- Sisters of Mercy.
- Women--Employment
People
- Beck, Mary Lawlor
- Doucette, Helen
- Hersey, Agnes Couglin
- Maheu, Pauline
- Michaud, Estelle
- Murphy, Agnes Hoctor
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Northern Light Mercy Hospital175 Fore River Parkway, Portland, ME 04102
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