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This black and white photograph shows Santa Fe courier nurse Shatusky with passenger Mrs. Smiley and her three children. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, known as couriers, to their passenger trains from the 1930s to the1960s to attend to the medical needs of passengers. During their cross country travels the nurses, also, assisted with certain administrative duties or errands that required attention.
Creator: Foto-Ad
Date: Between 1930s and 1940s
Item Number: 216527
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #127.3-4694
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216527
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 - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Home and Family - Children
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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