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LEGACY II (panel)
Ephemera on Gauze, Boxed in Acrylic Cases, 48”h x 12”w, Framed

1. BOOK – Florence Nightingale Wounded Soldier’s Friend – 1911
By Eliza F. Pollard
S. W. Partridge & Co., LTD, Old Bailey, London
Aberdeen University Press

“The real dignity of a gentlewoman is a very high and unassailable thing,
which silently encompasses her from her birth to her grave.”
                                                                                    Florence Nightingale

2. STERLING SILVER COFFEE SPOON – 1919
Florence Nightingale coffee spoon by Alvin
Patient 1919

 

3. PIN – Australia – October 27, 1917
Australian patriotic souvenir Army Nurses Day badge/pin
and
PIN – WWII
Old nurses pin celebrating Florence Nightingale.

 

4. BOOK – The Story of Grace Darling and Florence Nightingale – Early 20th Century
By Jennie R. Buehler, edited by S.B. Allison
One of the Little Classic Series (upper grades)
Published by A. Flanagan Company (Chicago)

 

5. LETTER – Lord Beaverbrook – 1926
A personal letter from Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) (aka William Maxwell Aitken)
Signed “B” in black fountain pen ink
To Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures
Encourages a biography on Florence Nightingale

Includes a reference to Sir William Howard Russell,
(newspaper correspondent who wrote about Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War)
          On Lord Beaverbrook’s personal engraved stationery
          23, St. Bride Street, London, E.C.4.

 

6. STAMPS – Mary Seacole 200th Anniversary – 2005
Jamacian
Celebrates the 200th anniversary of Crimean War heroine Mary Seacold
Herbal Remedies & Medicines - $30
Seacole Hall, UWL, Mona - $50
The Crimea War 1854-1856 - $60
Mary Seacole’s Medals - $70

 

7. STAMPS
Australia – 1955
MUH 1955 Florence Nightingale
Australian Pre Decimal Stamp (purple)
“Australia”
“A Tradition Of Service”
Dominica – 1968
“International Human Rights Year”

 

8. CIG CARD – TENNYSON – 1923
Original Alfred, Lord Tennyson autograph cigarette card
Originally issued by Nicolas Sarony & Co.
Cigarette specialists (New Bond Street, London, W.)
From the set Celebrities & Their Autographs (#72)
Chalk drawing by M. Arnault
Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in succession to Wordsworth
Raised to peerage in 1853
Buried in Westminster Abbey
Wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1864)
          (memorializing the British light calvary’s charge in the Battle of Balaclava,
          now Ukraine, in the Crimean War (1854-56), where 247 of the 637 were massacred)

       

Note: This poem, including punctuation, is the reproduced poem written out by Tennyson in his own hand.
University of Virginia

 

9. STEREOVIEW – Lea Hurst – 19th Century
Stereoview of Lea Hurst, Florence Nightingale’s childhood home,

featuring two women on the terrace by just outside the door leading into the Music Room.

 

10. ENVELOPE – Great Britain – 1970
Florence Nightingale issue on first day cover
Celebrates 150th anniversary of her birth
Florence Nightingale anniversary stamp

 

11. Envelope - United States – 1946
U.S.S. Florence Nightingale AP/70 envelope
Postmarked U.S. Navy on April 13, 1946
c/o Fleet Post Office, New York, New York
1946 in transport ship (troops and passengers)
at Brooklyn, New York, on her LDPS 1946.
USCS 6927 Official U.S. Navy Photograph
Sent with a $.02 U.S. Postage Stamp
(features President Roosevelt / 1882-1945
and the Little White House at Warm Springs)

 

13. RED CROSS POSTCARD – Belgium – 1939
Verviers postcard featuring Florence Nightingale
Red Cross stamp

 

14. SCRATCH-OFF CARD – Who Am I? – 1967
Topp’s card (#39): My Parents Were Shocked When I Decided To Become A Nurse.
Scratch-off card
Who Am I:
          I developed methods of training nurses in the 19th Century.
          I was known as “The Lady of the Lamp.”
          I am the subject of Longfellow’s poem Saint Filomena.”
Instructions: scratch off disguise on front to discover Who I Am.
Use a coin or fingernail.
T.G.G. Prtd. In U.S.A. Pat. Pend.

 

15. £10 STERLING BANK NOTE – 1975 – England
Features Queen Elizabeth (front); Features Florence Nightingale (back)
Permission granted to Joanelle Mulrain for reprint by the Bank of England.

 

16. BRONZE PLAQUE – United States – 1939
Florence Nightingale Nursing Pledge bronze plaque (10 lbs)
Presented by the Class of 1939
The Nightingale Pledge was composed by Lystra Gretter (1858-1951)
Gretter was a nursing instructor of nursing (old Harper Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA)
She was chair of the committee that authored the Pledge
(an adaptation of the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians)
It was first used by its graduating class in the spring of 1893