Black History Month begins today in the US and Canada, with the 2022 focus on Black Health and Wellness. ⁠ From gettyarchive, a look at pioneering women nurses in the US.⁠ Full captions are detailed below and in comments I #GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠ ⁠ 1. Student nurse Lydia Monroe at Provident Hospital in Chicago. She was photographed by Jack Delano for the US Office of War Information, March 1942 I Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images⁠ 2. A digitally colorized portrait of Susie King Taylor, known for being the first Black nurse to serve during the American Civil War. She is photographed in 1902, the same year in which she became the first Black woman to self-publish a memoir; Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers I Gado/Getty Images⁠ 3. Student nurses at the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown, New Jersey, circa 1935. The b...