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Collection GriE : Elizabeth Griffin Collection

Description

Key

89735

Reference Code Element

GriE

Type

Text

Creator

Personal name, Griffin, Elizabeth

Administrative/Biographical History

Elizabeth Griffin
1867-
Elizabeth Griffin came to Baltimore from Bradford, Pennsylvania. She was a graduate of the Clarion State Normal School and was a school teacher for two years prior to her admission into the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses. She received her nursing diploma in 1903. In 1903 and 1904, she helped care for the hundreds of individuals struck by the Typhoid epidemic in Butler, Pennsylvania and at the East End Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses, student., 1900-1903

Scope and Content

The Elizabeth Griffin Collection consists of scrapbook pages containing photographs and captions of scenes from the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Included in the photographs are shots of the exterior of the hospital, an interior shot of a ward and photos of various physicians and nurses.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins Hospital. School of Nursing. Class of 1903

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2004, 2006

Processing Information

The Elizabeth Griffin Collection was processed by Anthony Dellureficio in 2004 and described by Elisabeth Sultzbaugh in 2006 through a grant from the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Association.

Accession

2001-089

Custodial History

The Elizabeth Griffin Collection was donated to the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives in 2000 by her daughter, Muriel Yacavone.

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