ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202
COLLECTION: OGL#1306
DATES: 1915-1918
SIZE : 1 folder
ACQUISITION: The Anna Helen Nash Day Book was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Sandy Slater, Head of the Department of Special Collections, on April 3, 1995 (Acc.#95-2011). The day book was purchased at a flea market.
ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.
Anna Helen Nash was born April 23, 1888 in Webster, North Dakota. As a child she attended schools through out Ramsey county. Upon completing high school she enrolled in the St. John's hospital training school for nurses in Fargo. Following her training she spent time working both privately, and for St. John's Hospital. From the spring of 1918 through December of the same year she served as a nurse for the Army Nurse Corps. She was married to John Thompson, and they resided together in Fargo, until his death in 1955. After her time as a nurse, Anna became a home maker until her death in January 1990.
Anna Helen Nash's Day Book primarily contains the accounts of her working as a nurse from November of 1915 through May of 1918. In her diary she keeps accounts of the patients she worked for, and how much she was paid for assisting each patient. She also was sure to note when, and how any of her patients died when such instances arose. She also kept tabs on the addresses of the other nurses she worked with. (Although the "diary" was written in an address book, the addresses she took note of are not necessarily placed in alphabetical order.) The first few pages are very brief accounts of what she had been doing at the time. The book becomes more "diary like" at the beginning of the "B" tab in the book.
A number of the pages have gone unused, so there are significant gaps in the book where there is no writing. Tabs: E, G, H, I, J, L, N, O, P, Q, R, T, U, V, Y, and Z have nothing in them. Also note that the book has no "X" tab, but there is a tab for "Mc." In the "Mc" tab there is a recipe for coffee cake and bread dough. The book has a number of misspellings most notably the word "died" which is often spelled "dyed."
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