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Collections | Manuscripts | Alma Elizabeth Gault Papers | Boxes 1-2

Alma Elizabeth Gault Papers: Boxes 1-2

Box 1

1.   Outgoing Correspondence, 1937-1934
2.   Incoming Correspondence, 1925-1974
3.   Correspondence re: S. Lillian Clayton
4.   Vassar Training Camp
5.   Personal data and professional certificates
6.   Advisory Committee, Southern Missionary College
7.   Council on Nursing, Tennessee League for Nursing
8.   Clippings and photographs
9.   Professional awards
10. Community Service Awards
11. Alma Gault Day: Original source materials and memorabilia
12. Alma Gault Day: Tape recordings of proceedings
13. Papers for University of Chicago courses, 1937 (see also Box 2, Folders 5 & 6)
14. Addresses, 1932-1968: Present Day Needs in Nursing Education, 1932; Nursing in
      Hospitals and Institutions, 1940; Christmas message from the Union Memorial
      Hospital School of Nursing, 1941; Problems Facing the Director of the Affiliating
      School, 1943; The value of Inservice Program of Education, 1948; Nursing’s
      Professional Reach – Twenty Years of Growth and Development, 1953; Untitled,
      1965; The Past Is Prologue, 1965; Well, What Do You Know, 1966; All School
      Dinner Speech, 1968; Tennessee A & I student nurses night, 1968; LPN Graduation
      Address, Metro schools, 1968; LPN graduation address, Metro schools.
15. Addresses, undated: Social Service in Hospitals, The Place of the Nurse in the Public
      Health Field, Harriet Fulmer, Scenes from a Freshman Week in a School of Nursing,
      Federal Legislation Relating to Nursing, untitled speech on public health.      

Box 2

1.   Articles, 1932-1962: Social Service in Hospital, 1937; Nursing in Hospitals and
      Institutions, 1939; Before the Term Begins in the School of Nursing, 1941; Behaviors
     of Students in Relation to Fundamental Needs of Patients, 1953; Book review,
      American Nursing – History and Interpretation, 1954; Follow Up Study
      of Cancer Patients, 1954; Review of A Bio- Bibliography of Florence Nightingale,
      1962; “Ella Phillips Crandall” for Notable American Women
     
2.   Articles, undated: The Special Nurse, An Educational Program for the Southern
      Region, What Recent Trend in Social and Economic Conditions in the Health
      Field Need to be Considered in Planning Educational Programs for Nurses; Nursing
      Education Today and Tomorrow; Next Steps for Integration of Negro Nurses as
      Participants in Nursing Organizations; The Student Health Services in Relation to
      Nursing Education in Tuberculosis; Nursing Standards as Exemplified in the Public
      Health Nursing Act; The Library in the School of Nursing; The Adjustment of the
      Affiliating Student in the Teaching Program; Functions of Alumnae Associations
      and Their Relations to State and National Associations; The Nursing Supply and
      Demand As It Affects Institutions; What the Out Patient Department Has to Offer the
      Student Nurse; The Departmental Budget; Some Observations of a Health Film
      Showing   

3.   Complete journals containing Miss Gault’s articles:
       Nursing Care of Erysipelas, 1926; Pioneer Hospital and Nursing Service in Illinois,
      1932; Basic Requirements for Intelligent Nursing, 1933; Nurses and Budget Making,
      1934; Harriet Fulmer, 1935; Social Service in Hospital, The Library in the School of
      Nursing, 1937; Before the Term Begins in the School of Nursing, 1941; Nursing’s
      Professional Reach, 1954; Miss Gault’s Response to the service award of the NLN,
      1969.

4.   Bibliographies on Florence Nightingale; From the collections at the Duke University
      Medical School and Wayne State University.

5.   Class notes from University of Chicago courses.

6.   Class notes from University of Chicago courses.

Overview | Chronology | Boxes 1-2 | Complete Guide (PDF)