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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Munition Work Record of the Falkirk Iron Coy, Ltd.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2118
Scope and Contents This is a photograph album recording the First World War work of the Falkirk Iron Company, a cast iron goods manufacturer that switched to the production of munitions in 1915. The photographer is not named. As a "Government Controlled Establishment", the Falkirk Iron Company produced 10,000 tons of munitions, many of these delivered by women, who feature prominently in the photographs. A printed note to the front paste down of the album gives a detailed breakdown of the munitions produced,...
Dates: 1915-1918
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Olroyd, Elizabeth

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-5
Scope and Contents Pass certificate as Practical Nurse 1910; Pass certificate from Central Midwives Board 1910; letter from Central Midwives Board 1910; certificate of admission to General Nursing Council for England and Wales 1923; blank application form for state registered badge of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales; notes on cancer of the womb by Central Midwives Board 1908; notes on opthalmia neonatorum by Central Midwives Board 1909; Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service...
Dates: 1908-1938
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-705
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: sorted letters, cards, newspaper cuttings; photographs; a file on displaced persons, notes of reminiscences for broadcast; Automobile Association documents; letters from Sara Margery Fry (1874-1958); book on Sara Margery Fry; cassette tapes; biographical papers; pamphlets on Masson Hall, Edinburgh University; a report on women students; album of photographs relating to Masson Hall; newsletter of the Masson Association; several dozen foreign and domestic picture...
Dates: 1904-1981
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Reid, Winifred

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-15
Scope and Contents

Letters relating to photographs 1983; photographs 1932-1936

Dates: 1932-1983
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Samuel, Catherine Bruce

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-46
Scope and Contents

Fever nursing certificates 1920-1925; correspondence 1917-1929; Fever Nurse Training regulations; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh regulations; General Nursing Council for Scotland rules 1925; lecture notebooks 1917-1923; miscellaneous textbooks and periodicals; photographs; thermometer

Dates: 1917-1929
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Simmons, Ida

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-33
Scope and Contents

Nursing certificates 1919-1926; documents regarding later work 1940-1950, WWI war medals; M.B.E. medal

Dates: 1919-1950
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Smith, Annie Murray

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-10
Scope and Contents

Certificate of Edinburgh City Hospital 1924; Scottish Board of Health Fever Nurse's certificate 1924; certificate of the Royal Infirmary School of Nursing 1927; Metropolitan Asylums Board Official Testimonial 1929; certificate of membership of Royal British Nurses' Association 1929; certificate of having crossed the Equator 1973; "In Memoriam Sir Henry Wade DSD, CMG, 1877-1955" 1955; badges; miscellaneous

Dates: 1924-1973
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Somerville, Alice M.

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-44
Scope and Contents

Student midwife's case book 1947

Dates: 1947
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Sweenie, Elizabeth

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-41
Scope and Contents

Certificates 1917-1921

Dates: 1917-1921
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Todd, Jane

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-35
Scope and Contents

Diploma of Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital 1885; nurse's Midwifery Diploma 1885

Dates: 1885
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

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