"Nurses and nursing have been the frequent subjects of postcards. Pictures of Nursing: the Zwerdling Postcard Collection examines how these postcard images are informed by cultural values; ideas about women, men, and work; and by attitudes toward class, race, and national differences. Pictures of Nursing presents a selection of historic postcards from NLM’s recently-acquired Zwerdling postcard collection, spanning a century of nursing imagery. Pictures of Nursing investigates the hold these images exert on the public imagination—then and now."
To learn more about the exhibition, visit the website.
(https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/picturesofnursing.html)
Pictures of Nursing: Zwerdling Postcard Collection
(November 19, 2018 - January 5, 2019)