Antique Nurses

An invaluable addition to the 19th century home, this domestic medicine chest contained nearly everything needed to nurse a member of the household back to health. Made by the firm o...

Designed in 1932, the “Measured Time” clock and kitchen timer predates his more famous commercial "Radio Nurse" baby monitor designed in 1936. Tested and working.

The Red Cross is personified as a beautiful nurse cradling a sick soldier, who is laying in a cot.

Mary Ann died in 1857 in London, and his only child Alice Williams was born shortly afterwards to Sarah Susannah Horley, who had been Mary Ann's nurse – Edward and Sarah did not marr...

Later, when the basket ran aground, the twins were discovered by a female wolf who nursed the twins, before they were found by a shepherd who raised them.

Baden Powell (Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell; 1857-1941), featuring men and women working for the war effort including a soldier and Royal Navy sailor operating a cannon on the...

Tragically, whilst helping to nurse his ailing father during the influenza epidemic of 1933, he contracted bronchial pneumonia and influenza and died on the 28th February 1933, at th...

The Story of Tamiya Bataro Color woodcut diptych, March 22, 1886 Signed and sealed by the artist (see photo) Yoshitoshi signature, Taiso seal Series: New selection of eastern brocad...

Elegantly dressed and driving a fancy car, the couple attracts a lot of attention, especially when Antoinette, Ulysses’ new nurse, speaks to the family in French. Lil and Sandy have ...

They lived in a private townhouse at 48 West 50th Street, with a cook, a waitress, and a nurse to assist in his father's dental practice on the ground floor.

This becomes quite evident, when reviewing titles of paintings he exhibited during his lifetime – these include: The Merchant of Venice, The Sonnet, Much Ado about Nothing, Juliet an...

The third dog survived his fight and was nursed back to health with great care by the King's son, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Later that year the Hesse court and her own family became ill with diphtheria, and she nursed them; her youngest daughter Marie died however, and Alice again knew the pain of losing ...

Two of Briggs' historical pictures, first exhibited at the Academy in 1826 and 1827, are now in Tate Britain, London – First Conference between the Spaniards and Peruvians, 1531, and...

In addition, she worked as an auxiliary nurse during the First World War. From 1917 to 1922, she worked for the Wiener Werkstatte.

He was deeply affected by the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goe...

According to legend, Faustulus carried the babies back to his sheepfold for his wife Acca Larentia to nurse them. Faustulus and Acca Larentia then raised the boys as their own.

In an ambulance in Poitiers (also known as the Poitiers station ambulance in the press), Gervex represents nurses treating soldiers and thus highlights their difficult working condit...

The First World War plunges him, as a nurse, closer to the horror. He will come out broken and definitively won over to theses and pacifist movements to which he will always have his...

Oval 2 - A man flees a crowd of gnomes with a barrow filled with gold, urged on by a seated woman. Oval 3 - A nurse snoozes next to a cot as a baby is stolen Oval 4 - A seated maiden...

They could be easily customized to your needs, whether you were a society hostess, nurse or secretary. Often fully intact and original chatelaines can tell the story of its owner an...

(4) For from ancient Grantcester, Camboritum by Antonine, now famous Cambridge, the other brest and Nurse-mother of all pious literature, have flowed full streams of the learned Sc...

It originated from an anecdote told during a dinner at the home of Gustave Flaubert that made Jules and Edmond aware of the fate of a nurse from Rouen. For the description of the hos...

The author briefly served overseas as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, sustained injuries, and met a nurse who he eventually proposed marriage to but was declined.

Rodolfo immediately takes her in and tries to nurse her back to health, but he is too late. Almost as soon as the two are reunited and have professed their love for one another, Mimi...

San Camilo, patron saint of the sick, nurses and dyeing people, is almost always depicted as he is here, ministering to his patient at the hour of death.

Ceres or Demeter in Greek, sister of Zeus, in Greek mythology is the goddess of fertility, nume tutela dei raccolti, protector of agriculture and wheat, constant nurse of youth and g...

The author briefly served overseas as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, sustained injuries, and met a nurse who he eventually proposed marriage to but was declined.

Out of love for Tancredi, Erminia steals the armor of Clorinda, a female warrior with whom Tancredi is in love, to join him and nurse him back to health after a battle in which he ha...

In the photographs: portrait of two posing farmers, workers in a paddy field, country couriers with a nurse and a beautiful portrait of two farmers in rain-clothes.

Palmer was born in London, the son of a bookseller and a nurse. Palmer painted churches from around age twelve, and first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the ...

Palmer was born in London, the son of a bookseller and a nurse. Palmer painted churches from around age twelve, and first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the ...

Palmer was born in London, the son of a bookseller and a nurse. Palmer painted churches from around age twelve, and first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the ...

(4) For from ancient Grantcester, Camboritum by Antonine, now famous Cambridge, the other brest and Nurse-mother of all pious literature, have flowed full streams of the learned Sc...

He was deeply affected by the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goe...

, young native then nurse of the auxiliary hospital. The Lisieux municipal library houses a rare collective work, entitled Pages et croquis: 1914-1918, collecting texts and drawings,...

Her family sent her off with her nurse, Deborah (according to Rashi), and blessed her, "Our sister, may you come to be thousands of myriads, and may your offspring inherit the gate o...

He was deeply affected by the First World War and the death of his wife in 1920 following an illness contracted at the hospital in Algiers where she was a nurse. Inconsolable, he goe...

Ceres or Demeter in Greek, sister of Zeus, in Greek mythology is the goddess of fertility, the guardian of crops, protector of agriculture and wheat, constant nurse of youth and of t...

Having just inherited a large sum of money from Uncle Ulysses, Lil and Sandy are on their winter vacation in Florida with baby Ulysses and his French nurse, Antoinette. Lil dreams ab...

With this fascinating tale in mind, this piece would make the perfect present for any lover of Greek mythology, and for any aspiring doctor or nurse.