Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Evangeline Banks Harrison papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1032
Abstract
Helen Evangeline Banks Harrison was born in Hampton, Virginia in 1898, to Issiah and Anna DeCosta Banks. Often called Evangeline, or Vangi, she attended city schools in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as Avery Normal Institute, and Howard University. In 1922 she married Armistead B. Harrison and in 1935, she began working as a clerk in the out patient clinic of Charleston's segregated Hospital and Training School for Nurses. Harrison became Medical Records Librarian...
Dates:
approximately 1850-1985
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1058
Abstract
From 1896 until 1959, the Hospital and Training School for Nurses, Incorporated (Chartered 1897) provided education and training for African-American nurses to assist physicians and serve the medical needs of the local community. Located at 135 Cannon Street until 1959, this first building and hospital moved to 25 Courtenay Drive, and would become McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital. Named in honor of Anna DeCosta Banks, its founder and first head nurse this hospital operated until 1977.
The...
Dates:
1898-1997, undated
William Saxon Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract
The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982
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- African American nursing schools 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
- Hospitals -- South Carolina 2
- African American barbers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American men -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 20th century 1
- African American nurses 1
- African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American physicians 1
- African American women physicians 1
- Architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Nursing -- Study and teaching -- United States 1
- Segregation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- business cards 1
- invitations 1
- printed ephemera 1
- programs (documents) 1