title: The image of care delivery by public health nurses as disseminated in Revista da Semana (1929).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze the images of Public Health Nurses in care delivery to society, disseminated by the Revista da Semana, in 1929.
  
  
  METHODS
  historical-semiotic study. The documents used were images, to which an analysis matrix was applied, including fashion and body language literature, besides others to address the study object. The data were interpreted in the light of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's notions of object representations and body hexis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the distinctive use of uniforms for the Public Health Nurses' activities was a non-verbal communication strategy to gain visibility and credibility during home visits .
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Public Health Nurses were particularly responsible for patient care and guidance to prevent illnesses, with a view to the qualitative development of Public Health. The intent in this study was to produce knowledge on image records about nurses' care practice at the National Public Health Department's School of Nurses, as well as to strengthen Public Health Nursing History research in Brazil, thus contributing to a better understanding about the construction process of nurses' image.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem Alfredo Pinto, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. annakarina79@ig.com.br
authors.forename: Anna Karina
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: de Matos Deslandes
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aguiar
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neto
authors.forename: Fernando Rocha
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Porto
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D064689:Nurses, Public Health / Q000266:history*; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000266:history*