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This colored slide shows a Santa Fe Courier nurse. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company assigned registered nurses, know 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 or errands that required attention.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: October 1969
Item Number: 220111
Call Number: ATSF Series 8, #57.5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 220111
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 - 1960s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Slides
People - Women
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Nurses
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Slides
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