Theresa Nelson, Nurse, 1968
- Title Theresa Nelson, Nurse
- Date 1968
- Description Theresa Nelson of Chicago was Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing's first African American graduate, in the class of 1968. She is pictured with Edith Payne, Chairman of the Division of Nursing, an unidentified chaplain, and Dr. Mark Lepper, who was Executive Vice President of the hospital at that time. Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital was the product of the April 1956 merger of St. Luke’s Hospital, founded in 1864, and Presbyterian Hospital, founded in 1883. Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital is the predecessor hospital of Rush University Medical Center. From the Rush University Medical Center Archives, Group Photograph Collection, #P4274.
- Subject Lepper, Mark; Nelson, Theresa; Payne, Edith; Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital--School of Nursing.
- Format Photographs
- Place Illinois--Chicago
- Contributing-institution Rush University Medical Center Archives
- Rights Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill., holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: rush_archives@rush.edu
- Identifier P4274_Group_Students-PSLHSN-FirstBlackGraduate-TheresaNelson_Payne,Lepper,chaplain_potm0904.jpg
- Type Still image
- Language eng
- Publisher [Chicago, Illinois] : Rush University Medical Center.
- Rights Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill., holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: rush_archives@rush.edu