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 photograph from the "Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae" scrapbook, compiled by nursing school alumnae around 1950, shows nursing student Esther Julia "Pete" Anderson posing in 1917 with a human skeleton outside the Minor Private Hospital. Pete Anderson was a member of the nursing school Class of 1917.
ID Number: 1954.683.63.6
Date: 1917
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 2.75 x 5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv90972
Credit: MOHAI, "Memoirs of Minor Hospital Alumnae" Scrapbook Collection, 1954.683.63.6
