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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 52963

War Nurse Uniform


During World War I, in the operating room and in dressing work in the hospital wards, the War Nurse wore this white utility apron. It was a most unromantic apron, adopted to simplify the ever-present French laundry problem, but it was a badge of service coveted by thousands of untrained women.
Photographed by Joel Feder.

Courtesy of the Nursing Division, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, September 1962.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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10 January 2000