Abstract Lulu L. Cudney (1874-1967) was a registered nurse in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She documented the history and development of Western Michigan nursing during the first half of the twentieth century, found here. The collection contains data on health care, health care practices, health care wages and the development of professionalism in nursing. The collection also contains information on the Grand Rapids District Nurses Association (formerly the Grand Rapids Nursing Bureau), the...

Abstract M. Annie Leitch (1894-1989) was the Director of Nursing at the School of Nursing at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1936-1952. Throughout her career, Ms. Leitch promoted professionalism in nursing, encouraged the proper recognition of its practitioners and possessed a keen interest in the history of nursing. For these reasons she chose to make public her collection of papers and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection relates to the contributions of Ms. Leitch...

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Butterworth Hospital, now part of Spectrum Health, was established in Grand Rapids, Michigan as St. Mark's Home and Hospital in 1876. This collection contains photographs, annual reports, minutes, newsclippings, scrapbooks and yearbooks dealing with the history of the hospital, 1880-1989, particularly before 1930. Also in the collection are documents concerning fund raising for the construction of the new hospital building, which was dedicated in 1925.