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This black and white photograph shows a Santa Fe courier nurse feeding an infant passenger. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the 1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers. During their cross country travels the nurses, also, assisted with certain administrative duties and errands that required attention.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1940 and 1949
Item Number: 217746
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #127.18-4708
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 217746
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Nurses
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees - Nurses
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1940s
Home and Family - Children - Infants
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Children
People - Women
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Nurses
Type of Material - Photographs
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