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Florence Farmer fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1911-1968.

Reference:

R6483-0-4-E, MG30-C182

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102756

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Florence Farmer fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1911-1968.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

6.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of four files, including a clipping file which relates to the Red Cross; a correspondence file containing letters from Farmer to her mother; and two miscellaneous files containing biographical information and receipts.

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Farmer, Florence, 1879-1974
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Farmer, Florence, 1879-1974

Red Cross and Red Crescent

Croix-Rouge et Croissant-Rouge
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Farmer, Florence, 1879-1974 : Florence Farmer was born of British parents in 1879 at Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was raised and received her early education in Ont. In 1908 she graduated from Brooklyn Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. as a Registered Nurse. In 1912-1913 she practised nursing in Mexico. From 1914-1916 she served with the American and Russian Red Cross in Russia. She nursed in China from 1916 to 1918. She became Chief Nurse for certain American Red Cross hospitals in Russia in 1919. In 1920 she was assigned to the Children's Colony, Russian Island of Vladivostok. She was discharged from the American Red Cross in Paris in 1921 and returned to the United States through China.

During the 1920s she nursed in Columbus, Ohio and Ancaster, Ont. From 1938 to 1948 she was Nurse-in-Charge of a home for elderly women in Brooklyn, N.Y. She moved to Hamilton, Ont. in 1972.

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General note:

Received in 1980 from Mrs. W.F. Wallace of Hamilton, Ont.
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World War, 1914-1918

Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918

Nurses Canada

Infirmières Canada
Source:

Private

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MG30-C182
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