#nurses day

Today is International Nurses Day!

Here at the UWM Archives, we want to wish all nurses a fantastic International Nurses Day!  First celebrated in 1965, International Nurses Day falls on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday.  The International Council of Nurses announced that this year’s theme is Nurses: A Voice to Lead - A vision for future healthcare.  We are incredibly grateful for the hard work of all the nurses this past year!

The black and white photograph featured here shows a group portrait of Milwaukee County Hospital Nurses in 1939, with handwritten labels for Bertha Saunders, Minna Newhouse and Bessie Norstrant on the photograph.

This photograph can be found at the UWM Archives in box 1 of the Roman B.J. Kwasniewski Photographs as well as online in our Milwaukee Polonia Digital Collection.