Nurse's Cap
Object Details
- Description
- Maria Jayme was born January 14th, 1971 in General Santos City, Philippines and received a nursing degree from the San Pedro College of Nursing in Davao, Philippines in 1991. Maria received this nurse’s cap during the graduation capping ceremony. In 1994 she immigrated to the United States and worked as a registered nurse in Florida. Between 1965 and 1988 more than 70,000 foreign nurses came to the United States. 25,000 Filipina nurses provided a critical source of labor for hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Florida, California, Texas, and Massachusetts.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Reyna J. Legaspi
- ca 1991
- ID Number
- 2007.0218.01
- catalog number
- 2007.0218.01
- accession number
- 2007.0218
- Object Name
- nurse's cap
- cap, nurses
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- metal (part: material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 cm x 20 cm x 10 in; 3 1/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 25.4 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Work
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Nursing
- Immigration
- Record ID
- nmah_1336159
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-60d6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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