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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the American Nurses Association Southern Division Records #4759, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transfer from University Archives and Records Service, UNC-CH, in April 1995 (Acc. 95079).

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American Nurses Association. Southern Division.
• Nurses--Employment--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Nurses--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Nursing--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Nursing--Study and teaching--History--20th century.
• Public health nursing--Southern States--History--20th century.
• Rural health services--Southern States--History--20th century.

• Margaret Baggett Dolan Papers (#3846).

The Southern Division was one of several regional organizations formed from the American Nurses Association. The regional divisions were established "to promote the interests of the nurses in the terrritory comprising the division; for the interchange of ideas, and to bring the nurses of the division into closer fellowship" (1929). The Southern Division members wre Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Office files, 1929-1949, of the American Nurses Association, Southern Division. Included are letters, financial records, minutes, reports, and other materials. Most items relate to annual and biennial meetings and conferences. Reports from the member states about their activities are included for some years, sometimes as part of convention reports. Although most of the items are related to activities of the Southern Division, there is some information, particularly in papers collected as proceedings from conventions, on working conditions of nurses in member states, nursing education, rural nursing, public health nursing, and other issues. State reports from 1929 give detailed summaries of the activities of nurses' organizations in the member states up until that year.