PHOTOS: Album.
MILITARY NURSING
[Nursing] Cipriano, Lucy. Military Nursing Scrapbook. New Jersey, Arizona: 1945-1950.
Twelve loose pages removed from a perished photo album measuring 10.5” x 13”. A collection of 128 black and white or sepia toned photographs measuring 2.75” x 2.5” to 5” x 7” affixed to stiff black paper.
Pages from a photo album kept by Lucy Cipriano while serving with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in the late 1940s. After being recruited for the Cadet Corps in 1945 Cipriano attended the Bayonne Hospital School of Nursing in Bayonne, New Jersey and graduated in 1948. Her graduation ceremony can be seen in these photos along with a newspaper clipping containing a group photo of the new nurses. Throughout the pages are women posed in their white nurse uniforms, some in matching hats, as well as some photos in their military uniforms. Cipriano was soon stationed at a hospital in Arizona. The hospital, which is not named, can be seen here with Cipriano posing with others of her colleagues on the hospital grounds and looking out windows, along with some men and a Doctor K. Kasuga. In Arizona, Cipriano worked with Native- American (referred to here as Indian) families, especially newborns. There are pictures of her holding infants and one of a group of smiling children on a hospital bed. Two photos show Cipriano in her nursing uniform posed before Native-American sights including a totem pole and a painting of a teepee.
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