Printed on front: Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing - Tacoma Wash.

An attentive audience listens to the guest speaker at the Jackson Hall School of Nursing, 314 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, on November 9, 1967. Behind the speaker is a large table filled with material focusing on training the nursing aide. Photograph ordered by the Washington State Nurses Association, Seattle.

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing, circa 1947. Young nurses in multiple kitchens preparing food or sitting at table. A nurse and an older woman work at a desk on the right. This appears to be part of the nursing school, where students learn to prepare or assemble healthy meals. (images 3, 21, 23 & 24 of this room)

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. Nurses relax in their dormitory lobby of the new nurses' home, Jackson Hall, with the piano and games in front of the fireplace.

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ca. 1947. Tacoma General Hospital; Jackson Hall. Jackson Hall was a new building housing the School of Nursing, including dormitories. Two girls in bedroom, 2 beds with bedspreads, nightstand, large dresser. Girls with books.

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. Jackson Hall was dedicated in May 1947 as the new nurses' home.Two girls in a dormitory room, 2 beds with bedspreads, night stand, large dresser. Girl sitting at desk looking at girl by a large window with floral draperies. (TNT, 5/29/1947) (images 4 & 12 of dorm rooms)

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. Jackson Hall is the new nurses' home dedicated during ceremonies in May 1947. A view of a reading room with four large tables and eight chairs each for sitting. Book and magazine racks stand near the walls. Young women at the middle table sit across from one another. This area is most likely the library. (TNT, 5/28/1947)

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ca. 1947. Reading tables in library at the Tacoma School of Nursing, circa 1947. The school opened new facilities in 1947, called Jackson Hall. Six girls were photographed at tables, bookshelves on left.

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. Lecture hall with four levels of raised seats and tables filled with young nurses in training. A nurse sits in a chair by the podium. The school provided a three year course of study to qualify students as registered nurses. The school was organized in 1895 and graduated their first class in 1897. In 1947, the hospital erected a new building for its school.

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. The School of Nursing had waited years for this new nurses' home, Jackson Hall. Jackson Hall was dedicated during ceremonies in May 1947. A view of the student lounge. A grand piano is on the left. The back of the room has groups of chairs and couches with nurses in several of them. (TNT, 5/28/1947)

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ca. 1947. Large room with grand piano on right side. Two arched doorways behind it with chairs, tables and lamps. Jackson Hall, erected in 1947, provided quality housing for student nurses.

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ca. 1947. Shows multiple kitchenettes on both sides and tables and stools. Desk and refrigerator on left. In 1947, Tacoma General Hospital opened its new building housing its nursing training program. This was one of the classrooms in the Jackson building.

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ca. 1947. Large room with 4 kitchenettes; shared sinks, separate stoves, cupboards, one small refrigerator, desk and chair in alcove. This is one of the training areas for nurses located in the new building for training at the Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing.

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ca. 1947. Interior of a large auditorium at Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing, circa 1947, with 4 doors at back wall, one on left wall. Room is filled with folding chairs-set up. Tacoma General conducted its own nursing school from 1895 till 1980. This room was probably used as a lecture area for that school. In 1947, the school erected a new building, Jackson Hall.

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ca. 1947. Looking from rear of auditorium at stage with grand piano. Auditorium is believed to be part of the new structure housing the Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing.

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ca. 1947. Interior of kitchen with four u-shaped sink and cabinet areas. Each area has a small 3 burner stove; oven on end of cabinet, and 4 tables with stools in center of floor. This is believed to be one of the training areas for the Nursing school at the Tacoma General Hospital. The school had just completed a new building dedicated to the school.

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital; Jackson Hall plaque and portrait of Samuel M. Jackson, President of Tacoma General Hospital, 1912 - 1945. Mr. Jackson was also chairman of the National Bank of Tacoma. The new nurses' home, Jackson Hall, was dedicated May 1947.

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital. Four women standing inside at the dedication of Jackson Hall, the new nurses' home at Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. Mrs. Bessie Miln Hamilton and Mrs. Maude Matthews Ellegood, the last living members of the first graduating class from the school, are on the left. The other women are not identified. The school provided a 3 year course of study to qualify students as registered nurses. (TNT, 5/28/1947, 8/13/1946)

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital. These two women, Mrs. Bessie Miln Hamilton of Vancouver, B.C., and Mrs. Maude Matthews Ellegood of Pacific Grove, California, were honored guests at the dedication of Jackson Hall, the new nurses home of Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Ellegood were the last living members of the first graduating class of the School of Nursing 50 years ago in 1897. This school was the first of its kind established in the State of Washington. (TNT, 5/28/1947)

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Llewellyn Advertising Agency. Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. A young man holds a small microphone while Dr. R. Franklin Thompson, president of the College of Puget Sound, talks into it. This was during the dedication of Samuel M. Jackson Hall, the new nurses' home at the School of Nursing. (TNT, 5/28/1947)

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National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, speakers at institute. Four nurses observe a demonstration of the use of a probe while a patient lies in an iron lung with the top of the capsule open. Photograph taken at Jackson Hall, Tacoma General Hospital Nurses Home.

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