# @gettyimages on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16444918-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-02-01T12:07:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

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
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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 boarding school was founded in 1886 and known as the 'Tuskegee of the North' I Lewis Hine/Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images⁠
4. (Original caption from August 1922): The Black Cross Nurses in the giant parade through Harlem which today opened the thirty-day annual world convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, backing the "Back to Africa movement" and the "Black Star Line" in New York I George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images⁠
5. Blanche A Welter in Chicago, Illinois. In 1912, she was the day nurse who cared for then President Theodore Roosevelt at Mercy Hospital following an assassination attempt during an election campaign stop in Milwaukee I Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images⁠
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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackHealth #USHistory #USNurse #Wellness #BHM #BHM2022 #MedicalHistory #NursingHistory #PhotoArchive #ArchivePhoto #SocialHistory #HistoryPhotographed⁠
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