Memorial Obituary for Emma Pike, 1974 February 12

The Baltimore City Hospitals photograph album was assembled by Nellie Frances Pearce (later Daniel), who worked as a nurse on the campus from 1933 through 1958. The album consists of 61 pages containing photographs of the hospital buildings and residence halls, doctors and nurses, patients, and some images of Nellie's vacations. Most of the photographs are labeled with the location or name of the buildings, and many of the individuals are identified. She also provides some written commentary, describing events that occured. For example, page two of the scrapbook contains a photograph of the Infirmary Building, with a long path leading up to the entrance. Below the image, Nellie wrote, "September 4, 1933, I, Nellie Pearce walked up this walk toward the large building looking for the Nursing office...I found it, [and] was accepted for training for Licensed Practical Nurse." Images of other buildings include the Doctor's home, the Nurse's home, the Mens and Women's Psych buildings, the General and Chronic Hospitals, and the Tuberculosis buildings.

Nellie includes many photos of the nurses she worked with, both in uniform and out of uniform, and the nurses that taught and mentored her in her training. On page six she has pasted a large photograph of four women in a white dresses and caps. The caption reads, "Miss Hildibrandt, Miss Hartwell, Miss Sherstan, and Miss Lowe...Miss Lowe was the 1934 Class teacher from September 1933 to September 1934.." Other images include a snowball fight on the grounds of the campus, playing sports, and gardening, and simple posed snapshots. Nellie indentifies her self in many of these photographs.

In the latter pages of the scrapbook, she includes photographs from areas around Baltimore, as well as outside the state. There are images of Loch Raven Reservoir, Patterson Park, Druid Hill Park, Fort Smallwood, Glencoe, and Western Maryland. The final pages of the scrapbook contain photographs from Nellie's life before she became a nurse, when she worked at Lever Brothers. Her caption reads, "How did Lever Bros get in the picture-? You see, Nellie Pearce worked for Lever Bros 1930 and 1931. Nofolk and surrounding area, Richmond, Va., and Philadelphia, Pa. The manager of Lever Bros told Nellie Pearce the least thing she could do, since it was the great depression, was to go in training--therefore, that is how she got to Baltimore City Hospital and due to the depression the class of 1934 was the last until 1940. Nellie Pearce was the Crew Manager."

On the final two pages of the scrapbook, Nellie pasted an envelope containing one of the last letters she received from Emma Pike, a former colleague at Baltimore City Hospitals, as well as the 1953 edition of "The Dome", the School of Practical Nursing yearbook. Inside the cover of the book, Nellie includes a photograph of herself and her husband, and writes her notes and thoughts throughout the book.

There are two additional folders in this collection aside from the photograph album. Folder 1 contains three certificates awarded to Nellie Frances Pearce, two of which relate to her training program and board certification, and one a reward for long service. Folder 2 contains a single laminated obituary for Nellie's colleague Emma Pike, who died in 1974.