Pauline Kirby
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Creator: United States Army
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 5/4/1954
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4824
In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined the ANC in 1926 and had served as the U.S. Army's assistant director of nurses in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, and assisted with the establishment of neuropsychiatric hospitals for wounded soldiers.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4824
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
5/4/1954
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4824]