"Autographs" album with photographs of nurses and scenes in Wales and Lahore, approximately 1906-1936

Containers:

Box 1

Scope and content:

Small bound "Autographs" album with pasted snapshot and candid photographs of Elizabeth Annie Dickenson and other nurses. Most images are captioned and appear to be from her period working as a nurse in Bodlondeb Auxiliery Hospital in Wales. Some images match events documented in the other black album present in this collection: trips to Menai Bridge, group and posed pictures of nurses and convalescing soldiers, and a visit from Princess Victoria in 1916. Other images include "Sports at Bodlondeb" which is a photograph of men dressing in nurses uniforms; "Lahore, 1919, Mayo Hospital," which is an image of uniformed nurses, including Dickenson, having tea, as well as waiters in turbans; "Lahore," which is an image of a street in Lahore with a cow-drawn wagon; "Guy's District nurses, 1906," which appears to show Dickenson with other nurses; and "Miss Vivian and Mrs. Lloyd George," an undated image documenting a visit to the hospital.

The first page of this album contains the handwritten note "Jean, with love from Auntie Mary, Oct. 1936," opposite the interior cover which contains a photograph of two children captioned "Jeff and 1924 Jean." It could be this note was added to the item by a relative of Elizabeth Annie Dickenson. Thomas Bernard Dickenson (Elizabeth's brother) had a son, Jeffrey (b. 1920), and this could be a photograph of him.

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