Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4759
         AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION. SOUTHERN DIVISION
                             RECORDS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      The Southern Division was one of several regional
           organizations formed from the American Nurses'
           Association.  The regional divisions were established
           "to promote the interests of the nurses in the
           territory comprising the division; for the interchange
           of ideas, and to bring the nurses of the division into
           closer fellowship" (1929).  The Southern Division
           members were Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
           Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
           Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
               Office files, 1929-1949, of the American Nurses'
           Association, Southern Division.  Included are letters,
           financial records, minutes, reports, and other
           materials.  Most items relate to annual and biennial
           meetings and conferences.  Reports from the member
           states about their activities are included for some
           years, sometimes as part of convention reports. 
           Although most of the items are related to activities
           of the Southern Division, there is some information,
           particularly in papers collected as proceedings from
           conventions, on working conditions of nurses in member
           states, nursing education, rural nursing, public
           health nursing, and other issues.  State reports from
           1929 give detailed summaries of the activities of
           nurses' organizations in the member states up until
           that year. 

Online Catalog Terms:
   American Nurses' Association. Southern Division.
   Nurses--Education--Southern States--History--20th century.
   Nurses--Employment--Southern States--History--20th century.
   Nurses--Southern States--History--20th century.
   Nursing--Southern States--History--20th century.
   Nursing--Study and teaching--History--20th century.
   Public health nursing--Southern States--History--20th century.
   Rural health services--Southern States--History--20th century.

Size:  About 300 items (1.0 linear feet).

Provenance:    Transfer from University Archives and Records
               Service, UNC-CH, in April 1995 (Acc. 95079). 

Access:        No restrictions.

Related Collection:    Margaret Baggett Dolan Papers (#3846).

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Shelf List

                           Shelf List

   Box 1       1929-1937               (folders 1-10)

   Box 2       1940-1949               (folders 11-20)