Author: COMPILED BY THE WRITERS' PROGRAM OF THE WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION [WPA] IN THE STATE OF KANSAS
Title: Lamps on the Prairie a History of Nursing in Kansas: Sponsored By the Kansas State Nurses' Association
Description: Kansas St Nurses' Association; Emporia Gazette Press, 1942. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. Hardcover is blue with gold lettering on spine. Sewn pages are clean and tight. Faint signs of someone perhaps flipping through the pages, otherwise interior appears as if unused. Extensively illustrated with 98 b/w photographs. Laid in is the original order card to 'Cora A. Miller, Chairman, History Committee, K. S. N. A.' A project of the famous depression era WPA [Works Projects Administration]. Sections: Background; Campfire and Candlelight; Lanterns; More Lanterns; Lighthouses; Nurses are Trained; Lamp in Hand; Public Health Nurse Appears; War, Prosperity, Depression; Nurses Organize; Two Days (1892-1941) ; two appendices: brief histories of hospitals and nursing schools in Kansas; chronology of progress In care of sick and prevention of disease in Kansas; index. ; B&W Photographs; 6 x 9; 292 pages; Cover has light shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing, sunning. DJ consists of only back cover and flap.. Very Good+ in Poor dust jacket .

Keywords: Nursing History; Nurses; Works Progress Administration; Kansas; American History; State History; Women Activists; Women's History; Women in Science; Women/Womens' History Medicine/Health/Health Care Cultural History Education Science American History Geog