This collection consists primarily of correspondence, documents, photographs and memorabilia dating from Esther Winkler Shapiro’s service as a U.S. Army nurse on the Pacific front during the Second World War, with a smaller assortment of material dating from her time as a nursing student at The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. Memorabilia include a World War II Army Nurse Corps uniform and cap, a Japanese flag, and Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing caps. The collection include a shipboard newsletter from the U.S.S. Repose and a hospital newspaper from Thomas M. England General Hospital, locations where Shapiro served.
Shapiro, Esther WinklerElements area
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- Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.
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- Medical Subject Headings
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History, 20th Century
History, 20th Century
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History, 20th Century
- UF 20th Cent. History
- UF 20th Century History
- UF Historical Events, 20th Century
- UF History of Medicine, 20th Cent.
- UF History, Twentieth Century