Large sitting room in the nurses' home of The Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis. The nurses would have come to this large room to write letters, socialize and read.
Photograph showing the shoreline of a lake and trees. Hazelden provides an environment that is conducive to the chemically dependent person's sense of self-worth and dignity.
This photograph shows the South Flats unit at the St. Peter State Hospital, which was attached to the Center building. The South Flats housed female patients. The porches were built in 1918, according to sources at the hospital.
Staff are shown in costume for the Minneapolis General Hospital Carnival held at Harrington Hall; the two people seated on the floor are stirring a cauldron with a leg bone.
The staff physician's dining room at The Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis. The linen tablecloth, fresh flowers and crystal on the sideboard were special features not seen in the nurses' dining room.
As early as 1878 while prospecting for a site to establish a college for men in the Dakota Territory, Abbot Alexius Edelbrock, OSB, became aware of the need for a hospital in the still undeveloped area of Mandan and Bismarck. In 1885 he bought the Lamborn Hotel in Bismarck and succeeded in interesting Mother Scholastica Kerst in converting it to a hospital. It was a challenge to change the settlers' prejudice against hospitals as institutions for the wayward and shiftless. However, after five years and with the expertise of Dr. E. pageQuaine in surgery and Sister Boniface Timmers, OSB, in administration, the hospital gained favor and grew from a primitive institution to one of the finest hospitals in the land. With the help of a donation from St. John's Abbey, the Benedictine sisters were able to repay the abbey for the debt incurred by the original purchase and they named the hospital St. Alexius. By 1913, they were able to build a new hospital and to organize a school of nursing there (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; McDonald, pages 126-137).
Exterior view of two buildings used by St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. The large home on the left was eventually used as a nurses' residence when a larger, more modern hospital was constructed.
Exterior view of St. Barnabas Hospital in downtown Minneapolis. This photograph is pasted in a scrapbook prepared by a member of the St. Barnabas Hospital School of Nursing class of 1912. A photograph of the student is visible in the upper right hand corner.
A nursing student at St. Barnabas Hospital is putting away her uniform in her room at the Wellesmere Nurses Residence in Minneapolis. Nurses were required to have freshly ironed and starched uniforms for every shift.
In the early 1880s, several attempts were made in St. Cloud to meet the growing need of provisions for medical care. Dr. A.C. Lamothe Ramsay, lately graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago, began practice in St. Cloud in 1882. He and the sisters petitioned the city council for funds to help them erect a three-story hospital. When these funds for a hospital were not forthcoming, Dr. Ramsay, in 1885, opened one on his own in Joseph Pendel's newly constructed home. Because he soon found that he could not run his own hospital and at the same time take care of his regular practice, Dr. Ramsay persuaded the sisters to take over hospital work. The community, under the leadership of Mother Scholastica Kerst, was quick to take up the challenge. At first they decided to add a third floor and renovate St. Agnes Academy in St. Cloud (which had closed in 1880) to refit it for hospital use. However, in December, 1885, the sisters purchased a newly erected building on Ninth Avenue from John Kropp for $2,000 and by February announced the opening of the hospital under the name of St. Benedict's Hospital (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives; McDonald, pages 251-254).
Sister Ethelbert Krenik (1st row, 3rd from the left), second administrator (1929-1938) of the St. Cloud Hospital, attended the Northwest Hospitals Convention at Eli Lilly & Company.
Photograph showing the exterior of the Mount Sinai Hospital and power plant, during it's construction. Mount Sinai Hospital was built during the 1950's to address the discrimination Jewish doctors experienced admitting Jewish patients to local hospitals.
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This photograph shows a stenographer at work in her office at the St. Peter State Hospital. The year 1929 has been written on the back of the photograph, as well as the information that the photo was taken on the first floor of the center building.