Abstract Alice Estelle Newport (1877-1947) was born in Meriden, Connecticut. She attended the U.B.A. Hospital Training School for Nurses, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, graduating in 1902. In addition to personal photographs and correspondence, this small collection contains material related to Alice's education at the U.B.A. Hospital Training School for Nurses and would be of interest to anyone researching the nursing school or nursing at the turn of the 20th Century. Alice married Dr. William E. Rowe...

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...