Pauline Kirby (5493900611) - Original

Creator: United States Army

Subject: Kirby, Pauline

       United States Army Nurse Corps

       Walter Reed Army Hospital (Washington, D.C.)

Type: Black-and-White Prints

Date: 5/4/1954

Topic: Neurobehavioral disorders

     Psychiatry

     Women scientists

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-4824]

Summary: In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined the ANC in 1926 and had served as the U.S. Army's assistant director of nurses in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, and assisted with the establishment of neuropsychiatric hospitals for wounded soldiers.

Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives

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Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives

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