Mrs. William Schmechel, 3519 No. Union Ave., and her daughter, Theresa Anne, won a prize in a special drawing at St. Joseph's Hospital in May of 1941. Because Anne and her mother were in the hospital on National Hospital Day, their names were entered in the contest. Anne won a bank account in her name with an opening deposit of $10. (T. Times May 12, 1941 p.1)

Infants--Tacoma--1940-1950; Hospitals--Tacoma--1940-1950; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Schmechel, William--Family;

Gary Gay Shepherd was born to Mrs. Pearl E. Shepherd, formerly Pearl Holden, at Saint Joseph's Hospital on January 8, 1943. Mrs. Shepherd was married to Corporal Grover G. Shepherd. The joyous news of the baby's birth arrived almost simultaneously with the official notice that his father had been killed in action; the first casualty from Tacoma in the North Africa campaign. Corp. Shepherd had died November 20th. Announcement of his death was contained in the casualty list released by the War Department just a few days before his son's arrival. (T. Times 01-11-1943 p.1)

Shepherd, Pearl; Shepherd, Gary Gay; Mothers; Infants; Births; Maternity hospitals; World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Tacoma; World War, 1939-1945--Children--Tacoma;

St. Joseph's School of Nursing program was a three year program, the approximate cost in 1948 was $400 for three years, including $50 for their uniforms. The nursing student's fees included tuition, room and board, meals, medical expenses and incidentals, fees had increased $15 from the previous years. Nursing students were required to live at the Nurses' Residence for the first 2-1/2 years. View of nursing students studying in the St. Joseph's library located in the South I Street building, built in 1929

Studying--Tacoma; Nurses--Tacoma; Nursing--Tacoma; Medical education--Tacoma; Medical students--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); St. Joseph's Hospital Nurses Home (Tacoma);

ca. 1979. View of the back portion of the original St. Joseph Hospital, 1812 So. I St. circa 1979, with the J St. Standpipe in the right background. The hospital was built in 1914 and demolished in 1982. The standpipe was completed in 1890 and is located near St. Joseph Hospital.

Water towers--Tacoma; Tacoma Dept. of Public Utilities, Water Division (Tacoma); J Street Standpipe (Tacoma); St. Josephs Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1970-1980;

ca. 1979. View of the detail on the upper portion of the old St. Joseph's Hospital, 1812 So. I St., circa 1979. The hospital was built in 1914 and demolished in 1982.

St. Josephs Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1970-1980;

ca. 1979. View of the back portion of the old St. Joseph's Hospital, 1812 So. I St., circa 1979. The hospital was built in 1914 and demolished in 1982. The photograph is taken through a chain link fence, topped with barb wire, and includes a view of the emergency vehicles.

St. Josephs Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1970-1980;

ca. 1979. The J St. Standpipe, circa 1979, part of the Tacoma Department of Public Utilities Water Division. The standpipe was completed in 1890 and is located near St. Joseph Hospital.

Water towers--Tacoma; Tacoma Dept. of Public Utilities, Water Division (Tacoma); J Street Standpipe (Tacoma);

This was an operating room in the (old) St. Joseph Hospital where masked and garbed doctors and nurses were preparing for a surgical procedure in August of 1960. The operating room is fully equipped with a multitude of surgical tools, cannisters containing oxygen and bright lighting. The room was heated by the radiators on the left. Built at 1812 South" I" Street in 1914, the hospital was demolished in 1982. By then, a new St. Joseph Hospital had been erected and was operational at 1718 So. "I."

Operating rooms--Tacoma; Medical personnel--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1960-1970;

ca. 1927. Furnace at St. Joseph's Hospital for Harre & Farrell, Engineers. (Argentum)

St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1920-1930; Furnaces--Tacoma--1920-1930;

Christmas display of the Nativity located on the front lawn of St. Joseph's Hospital, at So. 19th & "I" St. The figures appear to be wooden cutouts painted in a highly romanticized style. In the scene, the shepherds bow before the baby Jesus, who is lying in Mary's arms. The nativity was constructed, painted and arranged by Harold Johnson, of the hospital utility crew, on his own time. Characters in the scene are the Virgin Mary, Baby Jesus, Joseph, three shepherds, the innkeeper's wife and her small son. (T. Times 12/25/1940, pg. 1)

St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1940-1950; Creches (Nativity scenes); Christmas decorations;

National Hospital Day was celebrated on May 11, 1941. In honor of the day, St. Joseph held a drawing. The names of all infants in the hospital and those who were born at St. Jo's and visited on the 11th were entered in a drawing. One boy and one girl each won a bank account with $10.00. (T. Times 5/12/1941, pg. 1)

St. Josephs Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma);

Tacoma hospitals observed National Hospital Day on Friday May 12, 1944.This photograph, taken in the surgery at St. Joseph's Hospital shows (l to r) Mrs. Darlene St. Onge, supervisor of surgery, U.S. Cadet Nurse Patricia Richards, Dr. R. Merrick, U.S. Cadet Nurse Eldoris Miller and Lucille Edwards. Tacoma General and St. Joseph's were both learning hospitals for enrollees in the U.S. Nurse Cadet Corps. On Saturday May 13, 1944, seventy six cadet nurses at St. Joseph's took the induction pledge at a ceremony held in the St. Leo's High School auditorium. (T. Times, 5/11/44, p. 1).

Operating rooms--Tacoma; Medical personnel--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Cadet Nurse Corps (Tacoma);

Canceling a concert at Tacoma's Temple Theater, Paul Robeson, singer and actor, is hospitalized for several days with laryngitis at St. Joseph's Hospital in March, 1943. To pass the time, Robeson engages in a game of chess with nurse Thressa Tien. Robeson was known for his bass-baritone voice in interpreting Negro spirituals and for the roles he played as a stage actor including "Showboat" and "All God's Chillun Got Wings." Following World War II, he became a political activist supporting socialism and black civil rights. (T. Times, 3-20-43, p. 1). ALBUM 8.

Singers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976; African Americans--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tien, Thressa; Hospitals--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Chess;

St. Joseph's graduating nursing students would recite the Florence Nightingale pledge, they would then receive their diplomas and hospital pins inscribed with St. Joseph's nursing motto" "Non Nobis Solum", Not to us, but to God, give the glory. View of nursing students using their medical procedures on dummy patients, these students are either second or third year students.

Medical equipment & supplies; Heads (Anatomy); Nurses--Tacoma; Nursing--Tacoma; Medical education--Tacoma; Medical students--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); St. Joseph's Hospital Nurses Home (Tacoma);

St. Joseph's School of Nursing classes met six days per week, students had one alternating day off per week. The first year students received four weeks of vacation, the second and third year students received three weeks of vacation. Students could transfer to Seattle College, once they successfully completed their initial 3 year program, transferring enables the students to receive a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. View of nursing students participating in surgery procedures in the operating room at St. Joseph's Hospital.

Medical equipment & supplies; Nurses--Tacoma; Nursing--Tacoma; Medical education--Tacoma; Medical students--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); St. Joseph's Hospital Nurses Home (Tacoma);

Pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima in St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph's School of Nursing, Sister Marie Geralds. The "Pilgrim Virgin" statue of Our Lady of Fatima traveled across America on its "Crusade for Peace". The statue is seen on the left of the altar surrounded by calla lilies in this photograph dated May 28, 1949. Many children are seen in the pews and standing. Two different orders of nuns are seen seated in the left foreground and to the right of the central aisle. (TNT, 5/27/1949, p.11)

St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Fatima, Our Lady of; Sculpture--Tacoma; Altars--Tacoma; Pews--Tacoma; Religious articles; Nuns--Tacoma;

St. Joseph's Hospital and School of Nursing had 23 first year students going through the capping ceremony in 1949. Two were male students. St. Joseph's had one of the best nursing programs in Washington. View of Sister Mary Jane, O.S.F. hospital administrator, awarding St. Joseph's Nursing School insignia to Harold Dilly (left) and William Adams (T. Times, 3/7/49, p. 2). TPL-8820

Medical students--Tacoma; Medical education--Tacoma; Nurses--Tacoma; Nursing--Tacoma; Nuns--Tacoma; Rites & ceremonies--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma);

ca. 1979. View of the back portion of the old St. Joseph's Hospital, 1812 So. I St., circa 1979. The hospital was built in 1914 and demolished in 1982.

St. Josephs Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1970-1980;

The Seattle-based Catholic Northwest Progress newspaper requested the Richards Studio take photographs at the Multiple Sclerosis clinic held at St. Joseph's Hospital in November, 1951. View of two priests in wheelchairs; man on the right is believed to be a Father Farrell who resided in room 321.

Multiple sclerosis; Priests--Tacoma--1950-1960; Handicapped persons--Tacoma; Wheelchairs;

A brand new baby seems to peer curiously at the $300 Peoples Store gift certificate the young father is holding. The baby is being snugly held in the mother's arms while the dad has his hand tenderly encircling the newborn. Sepia photograph ordered by St. Joseph's Hospital.

Families--Tacoma--1950-1960; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma);

Pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima in St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph's School of Nursing, Sister Marie Geralds. The renowned "Pilgrim Virgin" statue of Our Lady of Fatima arrived Sunday, May 29, 1949, at St. Patrick's Church for two days and two nights on its "Crusade for Peace" across America. Carved from cedar by Thedim, Portugal's foremost sculptor, it is a replica of the statue of the Blessed Virgin which stood in the Basilica in the Cova da Iria, 60 miles north of Lisbon where the Mother of God appeared to three small children in 1917. (TNT, 5/27/1949, p.11)

St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Religious articles; Sculpture--Tacoma; Fatima, Our Lady of;

Nurses at St. Joseph's Hospital. Sixteen student nurses at St. Joseph's hospital were honored at capping exercises March 21, 1948, after completion of six months training. The students are holding the traditional Florence Nightingale lamps. Names listed. (T.Times, 3/22/1948, p.8; TNT, 3/22/1948, p.5))

St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); Nurses--Tacoma--1940-1950; Medical education--Tacoma; Medical students--Tacoma; Graduation ceremonies--Tacoma--1940-1950;

St. Joseph's nursing students were considered to be in the "Pre-Clinical" period during the first six months of their program. The first year of studies was spent almost entirely in classrooms and demonstration rooms.The freshmen were required to wear miniature caps, after they successfully completed this period they received full-fledged training caps. Once students were formally capped they received a $5 stipend per month. View of nursing students in demonstration room located in the hospital.

Medical equipment & supplies; Nurses--Tacoma; Nursing--Tacoma; Medical education--Tacoma; Medical students--Tacoma; St. Joseph's Hospital & School of Nursing (Tacoma); St. Joseph's Hospital Nurses Home (Tacoma);