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Accession Number: 14
The Frontier Nursing Service Collection
.4 linear ft.
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Record (BANC)
Overview
History
Series I - Correspondence
Series II - Reports and Bulletins
Series III - Articles and Clippings
Series IV - Photographs
Series V - Miscellany
Access and Use
Preferred Citation: The Frontier Nursing Collection,
Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.
Overview of the Collection
These are correspondence, printed materials, articles, clippings
and photographs relating to Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service
(FNS) and its founder, Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965).
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History
Breckinridge founded FNS in 1925, in part as a response to the
early deaths of her two children. After completing nurses’ training
in New York City, she went on to study midwifery in England. She
modeled her Kentucky efforts after the British nurse-midwifery
system and at first staffed it with British nurses.
Breckinridge focused her efforts mainly in Leslie, Clay, and Harlan
counties, where poor roads made horseback and later, jeep travel
a necessity. The scarcity of doctors required that FNS nurses respond
to a wide range of medical needs beyond just those of expectant
mothers and their infants. Her efforts eventually resulted in the
establishment of a hospital at Hyden, several neighborhood nursing
clinics, and a nurse-midwifery training program.
1 Manuscript Box
| Series
I |
Correspondence |
Box 1 |
This series consists of correspondence, mainly between Breckinridge
and Berea College Presidents William J. and Francis S. Hutchins,
1923-1951.
Box 1
- Correspondence 1923- 1951
| Series
II |
Reports and Bulletins |
Box 1, cont. |
This series consists mainly of minutes (1925-1966) of the American
Association of Nurse-Midwives and miscellaneous FNS publications,
1928, 1939, 1940.
Box 1, continued
- Minutes - American Association of Nurse-Midwives,1925-1966
- FNS Quarterly Bulletin, 1929, 1939,1940
- Miscellaneous FNS Publications, 1923-1970
| Series
III |
Articles and Clippings |
Box 1, cont. |
This series consists of articles and clippings relating to the
Frontier Nursing Service and Mary Breckinridge written by others,1926-1976.
Box 1, continued
- Articles and Clippings, 1926-1950
- Articles and Clippings, 1953-1970
| Series
IV |
Photographs |
Box 1, cont. |
This series consists of photographs of Breckinbridge and others
associated with FNS.
Box 1, continued
- Photographs, 1938-1952
| Series
V |
Miscellany |
Box 1, cont. |
This series consists of information relating to Breckinridge’s
death in 1965, her book, Wide Neighborhoods, A Story of the
Frontier Nursing Service, and a short bibliography.
Box 1, continued
- Miscellaneous Items 1928-1995
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