Minor Private Hospital was founded in January 1906, and a two-story, brick hospital building constructed at 1420 Spring Street in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood. In September 1906, a school for nurses was established at Minor Hospital, with a three-year course of training. Minor Private Hospital closed in 1928, and the last nursing school class graduated in 1930. The nurses later organized the Minor Hospital Alumnae Association, and the Seattle group continued to meet into the 1950s, hosting events such as banquets and holiday parties. In 1948, the Association began compiling a memoir scrapbook for presentation to the Seattle Historical Society, now the Museum of History & Industry.

This page from the Minor Hospital Alumnae scrapbook is typical of the cover page for each nursing school graduating class: the page is hand-lettered and illustrated, listing the class flower, colors, and motto, with photographs and a listing of names of the women in that class. The seven small oval photographs here depict Class of 1915 nurses Dorothy A. Preston, Gene Marie Fuller, Edna Neil Smith, Margaret Metcalfe Bothwell, Emily Elizabeth Ogilvie and Eve Goode, and nursing superintendent Lucy I. Pringle.