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This black and white photograph shows Santa Fe courier nurse Betty Widen. 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.
Date: Between 1944 and 1955
Item Number: 220023
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #127.111-4778
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 220023
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 - Women
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Nurses
Type of Material - Photographs
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