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This black and white photograph shows Santa Fe courier nurse Lois McCarthy reading to from left to right, Edward Schaefer of Guilford, Connecticut, and John Godsmark of New Hyde Park, New York. The Atchison, Topeka & 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.
Creator: Brent, Orville
Date: Between 1940s and 1950s
Item Number: 306251
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #30.14
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 306251
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
Date - 1950s
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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