title: The material of practice: the Canadian Nursing History Collection.
abstract: The Canadian Nursing History Collection is a special holding of over 1500 artifacts at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum. The most significant of its kind, the collection includes uniforms, pins, diaries, instrument kits, and military medals. Researchers and the public will access the collection through an on-line catalogue, a major exhibition, and a book. The material culture of nursing represented by this collection provides nursing historians with a whole new body of evidence for insights into nursing history. The sample of hospital uniforms, from 1900 to the present, for example, raises new and theoretical approaches.
authors.affiliation: Ontario History at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Chair of the Canadian Nursing History Collection Working Group.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bates
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006663:Historiography; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009144:Museums / Q000266:history*; D009729:Nursing / Q000295:instrumentation*