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Collection LawE : Elsie Lawler Collection

Description

Key

71776

Reference Code Element

LawE

Dates

1893-1963, inclusive

Extent

0.5 linear foot

Creator

Personal name, Lawler, Elsie M.

Administrative/Biographical History

Elsie M. Lawler, a superintendent of The Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, was born in Whitby, Ontario. She attended the Collegiate Institute in Toronto, the University of Toronto, and Ontario Ladies' College for Music and Drawing before entering The Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1896. She received her nursing degree in 1899 and served on the nursing staff of the hospital until 1905.
Lawler left in 1906 to become assistant superintendent of nurses at the Toronto General Hospital, leaving after eighteen months to become superintendent of the Hospital and Training School at the Memorial Hospital in Niagara Falls, New York. In 1909, she became the superintendent of nursing of the Tuberculosis League Hospital in Pittsburgh. In 1910, she became superintendent of nurses and of the school of nursing at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, a position she held for more than thirty years. In 1935, The Johns Hopkins University conferred upon her the honorary degree of Master of Arts, the first such degree ever given to a woman by the university.
Lawler’s tenure at Johns Hopkins was characterized by steady advances in the standards of nursing education. She adapted the nursing curriculum to accommodate the hospital's expansion, which more than tripled in size, adding new clinics and institutes for specialized branches of medicine.
Lawler was active in professional associations, serving as president of the Maryland State Nurses Association and of the Maryland State League of Nursing Education.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1899-1905

Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1910-1940

Scope and Content

The Elsie M. Lawler Collection spans her entire career at Johns Hopkins. It includes student notebooks, photographs, correspondence (1942-1963), biographical material, financial receipts (1901-1928), Lawler's black silk superintendent's uniform and cape, along with other artifacts. Prominent correspondents include Anna D. Wolf and Isabel Stewart.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. School of Nursing. Class of 1899

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. School of Nursing--People

Related Archival Material

Additional Lawler material can be found in the records of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing.

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2001, 2007

Processing Information

The Elsie Lawler Collection was processed by Phoebe Evans Letocha in 2001 and described by Elisabeth Sultzbaugh in 2007 through a grant from the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

Accession

2007-045

2003-060

2003-008

2002-086

2002-051

2001-087

2001-006

2001-005

2000-129

2000-111

2000-107

1985-025

Related Artifacts

Found 1 record(s)

Available Actions	Artifact Numbersort by Artifact Number ascending	Titlesort by Title ascending
	1798A	For Maltese Cross Pin

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