This Concordia Society Yearbook includes membership listing, the president's address, and various committee reports including financials. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
Cashbook that includes credit and debits of the Concordia Society related to its activities. Written in Swedish. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. These documents are in Swedish, the official language of the hospital in its early years. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This is a collection of social service reports for the Concordia Society, a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This scrapbook includes photographs and archival material and handmade invitations related to the Concordia Society, a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This scrapbook includes photographs and archival material related to the Concordia Society of the Swedish Hospital. This book received the 1974 award of the Minnesota Hospital Association for the Best Historical Book of the Year. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This Concordia Society Yearbook includes membership listing, the president's address, and various committee reports including financials. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and a variety of other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
Monthly meeting minutes that include committee and annual reports, also contains photographs and loose pages. Written in Swedish. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and of other services to persons in need of medical care. These documents are in Swedish, the official language of the Hospital in its early years. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
Monthly meeting minutes that include committee and annual reports; also contains clippings from 1912 yearbook; loose annual report from 1911. Written in Swedish. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. These documents are in Swedish, the official language of the Hospital in its early years. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
Monthly meeting minutes that include committee and annual reports; also contains photographs and obituaries. Written in Swedish. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. These documents are in Swedish, the official language of the Hospital in its early years. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
Monthly meeting minutes that include committee and annual reports, also contains reports and photographs. Written in Swedish. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and of other services to persons in need of medical care. These documents are in Swedish, the official language of the Hospital in its early years. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This Concordia Society membership ledger book includes names and addresses of members. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This volume contains cash report of spending by the Concordia Society of the Swedish Hospital from 1915-1924. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
This is a typed loose paper annual report of the Concordia Society from 1953. The Concordia Society was a benevolent women's society organized October 17, 1901, at the Swedish Hospital of Minneapolis. The Concordia Society was primarily dedicated to providing free beds and of other services to persons in need of medical care. The Swedish Hospital was run by and for Swedish immigrants.
Surgery Room B at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. The large window would have allowed an ample supply of natural light to illuminate the room during a surgery.
Fully dressed patients are shown reading in bed at Hopewell Hospital, Minneapolis City Hospital's quarantine hospital and tuberculosis sanatorium. The hospital operated from 1907-1924 and was later renamed the Parkview Sanatorium.
A classroom at The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis that features a "patient" resting in a hospital bed in the front corner of the room.
1963 architectural plans of Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
1963 architectural plans of Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
1963 architectural plans of Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plan of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
The 1963 architectural plans of the Minneapolis General Hospital campus, showing the diversity of hospital buildings built over a half-century. This plan precedes the hospital's 1964 transition from city to county governance.
Side view of the original Swedish Hospital building in Minneapolis. The ambulance entrance on the right hand side is constructed for carriages. This building was replaced with a larger, more modern building in the late 1920s.
Large sitting room in the nurses' home of The Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis. The nurses would have come to this large room to write letters, socialize and read.
An internal view of a two bed patient room in the Minneapolis City Hospital's Contagion Building; the bathroom is visible through the door on the right.
Patients are shown taking an open-air treatment on the lawn of Minneapolis City Hospital's Hopewell Hospital. This quarantine hospital and tuberculosis sanatorium operated from 1907-192 and was later renamed Parkview Sanatorium.
Student nurses dining in the B Building of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. Each table sat approximately 18 nurses. Meals were served family style. Nursing and medical staff can be seen dining in the alcove area of the adjoining room.
An external view of the Minneapolis General Hospital viewed from corner of 7th Avenue South and 5th Street; the administration building and nurses home are shown.
An external view of the Minneapolis General Hospital viewed from corner of 6th Avenue South and 6th Street; the nurses home, administration building, and Contagious Building are shown.
An external view of Minneapolis General Hospital from the corner of 7th Avenue South and 6th Street; 1 is the Employees Building; 2 is the Laundry Building; 3 is the Administration Building; though it is winter, laundry windows are open.
Main kitchen at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph gives the following description: The steam table is close to the table on which the trays are set. The lift serves four floors. Directly above the main Diet Kitchen are the four small floor diet kitchens where trays are received and taken at once to the patients. The lifts are hydraulic and steam heated. Except in extremely hot weather ice cream may be served on the tray without melting. On the four floors eighty patients are served in fifteen or twenty minutes.
Two student nurses prepare trays for patients at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis while two nurses supervise their activities. The student nurse in the background is busy loading trays onto a dolly system that will transport the meals to smaller diet kitchens on each floor for distribution to patients.
The garden courtyard on the north side of The Swedish Hospital's B Building featured a small sunken pool and several flower beds. The nurses' residence is visible beyond the courtyard wall.
Approximately 40 students listening to an anatomy lecture delivered by Dr. Andrew Soderlind at The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis. Two nursing instructors are seated at the front of the classroom.
Side view of the Vandenburgh Nurses Residence at The Swedish Hospital just prior to its demolition in the 1960s. This home was in near continuous use by the hospital beginning in the early twentieth century.
An aerial view of the garden at Elliot Park in downtown Minneapolis as seen from the upper floors of The Swedish Hospital. A decade earlier this park was still pasture land at the Elliot Farm.
An internal view of the toilet room at the Lymanhurst Pediatric Hospital and School, which operated from 1914-1926 as a branch of Minneapolis General Hospital.
Exterior view of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. The building was built in 1901. The unappealing exterior is in stark contrast to the hospital's modern and luxurious interior, which featured comfortable furniture and fine architectural detailing. The lace curtains hung in the patients' rooms are visible in this photograph if you look closely.
Exterior view of The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. It may appear to be three buildings, but the three separate areas are different wings of the hospital connected by a main corridor. Notice the stained glass window on the bottom level of the first wing. This was most likely a window in a public reception room. Carriage posts line the street in front of the hospital.
Street view of the B Building at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. The photograph was taken from the present corner of Eighth Street and Tenth Avenue. Modern Elliot Park is still Elliot Farm. The barb wire fence at the edge of the farm's pasture is visible in the photograph.
Shown left to right are Hanna Carlson, Floy Chamberlain, Rose O'Donnell, Inez Rannow, and Albert Williams working in the accounts section of Minneapolis General Hospital's business office.
A wheelchair bound pediatric patient is shown "taking the air" at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis. Fresh air and sunshine were believed to be a beneficial healing component for many illnesses at this time, most notably tuberculosis.
The sun porch in the Farr Pavilion at St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. A student nurse attends to a pediatric patient in the far corner. The plants and ample sunlight coupled with fresh air were believed to be health inducing.
Large group of students from The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis are pictured during their operating room rotation. The second nurse from the right is most likely holding iodine to use as a disinfectant.
Large group of student nurses leaving The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis at the end of a shift. A portion of one of the nursing school's dormitories is visible at the right hand side of the photograph.
The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing class of 1941 student Eileen Larson Johnson scrubbing in for an operation in scrub room C-D at The Swedish Hospital. Notice the cotton surgical mask that covers her face and wraps over her entire head.
A nursing student at St. Barnabas Hospital is putting away her uniform in her room at the Wellesmere Nurses Residence in Minneapolis. Nurses were required to have freshly ironed and starched uniforms for every shift.
Exterior view of two buildings used by St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis. The large home on the left was eventually used as a nurses' residence when a larger, more modern hospital was constructed.
Exterior view of St. Barnabas Hospital in downtown Minneapolis. This photograph is pasted in a scrapbook prepared by a member of the St. Barnabas Hospital School of Nursing class of 1912. A photograph of the student is visible in the upper right hand corner.
The staff physician's dining room at The Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis. The linen tablecloth, fresh flowers and crystal on the sideboard were special features not seen in the nurses' dining room.