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Editha Anderson Shaw collection, 1944-2007, Date accessioned: 2007-04-03

 

Summary

Creator:
Shaw, Editha Anderson , 1926-2015
Extent:
.25 Linear Feet
1 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Editha Anderson Shaw collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-07-1936

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to the nursing career of Editha Anderson Shaw, which began in 1944 as a member of the U.S. States Cadet Nurses Corps in 1946. This collection contains photographs, correspondence, an oral history transcript, and a series of objects. The bulk of collection focuses on Shaw's training at the School of Nursing at Riverside Hospital in Newport News, Virginia and Children's Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, DC. The collection includes an extensive oral history about her childhood, education, observation about racial segregation in the south, medical care offered to returning World War II veterans, and postwar career in nursing.

Biographical / historical:

Editha Anderson Shaw was born in the Bronx, New York on March 26, 1926. Shaw grew up in Brooklyn, New York where she worked as a telephone operator during World War II before enlisting in the U.S. Cadet Nurses Corps in 1944. She enrolled at the School of Nursing at Riverside Hospital in Newport News, Virginia and also received training at Children's Hospital School of Nursing in Washington, DC. From 1946-1948, Shaw worked as a nurse at the Veterans Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In the postwar era, Shaw continued her career as nurse in New York State and later Houston, Texas before retiring in 1987 to Florida. Editha Anderson Shaw passed away on March 4, 2015.

Custodial history:

Gift of Editha Anderson Shaw.

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Physical facet:
Blue Riverside Hospital cadet nurse's cape.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to the public.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Editha Anderson Shaw collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-07-1936

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA