Collection materials detail the history and development of nursing in the West Michigan region during the first half of the twentieth century. As such it contains data on health care, health care practices, health care wages and the development of professionalism in nursing. The collection also contains scrapbook histories of the Grand Rapids District Nurses Association (formerly the Grand Rapids Nursing Bureau), compiled by Cudney. These scrapbooks contain data on history and development of health care in the region during the first half of the twentieth century. Cudney compiled a registry of Butterworth nursing graduates who saw service during the Spanish-American War and World War I. Various publications and brochures of the Michigan State Nurses Association and the American Nurses Association are also included. The collection also contains several ca. 1952 postcards of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Note: Grand Rapids Sampler, pg. 139, has two images related to this collection:

1. Lulu Cudney WWI nurse

2. Image of a group of nurses from World War I, Medical Unit Q, which is cited as being from this collection. No images are found in this collection, and no published image has been found in the written contents to match this image. Location of image currently unknown. 2/14/2008