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Type of Object
Toy
Date of Manufacture
1900-1940
Physical Details
Plastic doll wearing a facsimile of the uniform for the Virginia Hospital School of Nursing. Shoes are black, and legs are covered with a short length of black hose, as would be customary for a nursing student. Skirt is very long, almost floor length, and is light pink with broadly spaced, thin white stripes, a pattern which is repeated on the blouse. Apron is long, with a rear button closure and two straps of cloth connecting the front to the opposite edge. Blouse has a moderate sized, starched white collar, and separatable cuffs covering the arm from the elbow to the wrist. Doll's hair is piled on top of the head and pinned back. Doll's cap has a broad brim, with crushed, lacey-patterned fabric sewn in circular configurations around the upper and lower edge.
Dimensions
32 cm. x 13.5 cm. x 8 cm.
Medical Subject
Play and Playthings
Accession Number
1983.118d
Genre
toys (recreational artifacts)
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Doll in Virginia Hospital Nursing Uniform, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00153.jpg