Archival Collections

Cadet Nurse Corps Files, National Archives and Records Administration 

Department of Public Charities & Hospitals Collection, NYC Municipal Archives

Lincoln School for Nurses Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Jane Lyons Papers, Staten Island Museum Archives

Salaria Kea O’Reilly Oral History, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archive, New York University

Virginia Allen Interview (2015), Staten Island Museum 

Further Reading

Bynum, Helen. Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit by Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D. printed in 1994 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Public Health Service.

Drolet, Godias J. and Anthony M. Lowell. “A Half Century’s Progress Against Tuberculosis in New York City, 1900 – 1950.” New York: New York Tuberculosis and Health Association, 1952.

Hine, D. C. Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Kondratas, Ramunas, curator. “The Beginnings of Biomedical Research,” Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit, 1994.

Opdycke, Sandra. No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Smith, Susan Lynn. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 1890-1950. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

Zavin, Shirley. “New York City Farm Colony – Seaview Hospital Historic District Designation Report.” New York: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1985.