Gertrude Bryan, Director of Nursing, Ontario Hospital Whitby, c.1925
Description
- Creator
- Erickson, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Miss R. Gertrude Bryan seated at her desk.
- Notes
- Miss R. Gertrude Bryan was born at Whitby in 1872. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bryan. She trained as a nurse at the Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio from 1894 to 1896 under Miss Mary Hamer Greenwood, another Whitby native. She obtained post-graduate training in nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital, New York. When the Ontario Hospital opened at Whitby in 1916, she joined the nursing staff. She became director of the Nursing School from 1920 to 1932 when she went to the Ontario Hospital at Cobourg. She retired to Whitby, where she died in 1961 at the age of 89. She is buried in Union Cemetery, Oshawa.
- Date of Original
- c.1925
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 cm
Height: 12 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 10cm
Image Height: 12cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 13-001-220
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.853888 Longitude: -78.936111
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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