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ILLINOIS STATE ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE NURSES
ILLINOIS STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION COLLECTION
An inventory of papers at the Midwest Nursing History Research Center, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Overview of the Collection | |
Repository: | MNHRC, CON, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Creator: | Illinois Nurses Association |
Title: | Illinois Nurses Association Collection |
Dates: | 1967-1986 |
Quantity: | 1.5 linear feet |
Identification: | INA |
Language: | The records are in English. |
Biographical Sketch
The Illinois Graduate Nurses’ Association, later the Illinois State Association of Graduate Nurses, the Illinois State Nurses’ Association, and then the Illinois Nurses’ Association, was founded in 1901. The association’s initial aims were development of a Nurse Practice Act which would require nurse registration, and a Board of Nurse Examiners for the state.
Scope and Contents
1906 to 1986. The main part of the collection is the collection of newspaper clippings from a professional clipping service. Some early editions of the Quarterly and other miscellaneous items are also held. The printer’s blocks include many of the Association’s early leaders.
Box 1—Newspaper clippings
1967 INA Clips
1970 INA Clips
1971 Illinois Nurses Week Clips
1973 INA Clips
1974 INA Clips
1976 Illinois nurses Clips
1976 INA Clips
1977 Illinois Nurses Week Clips
1978 Illinois Nurses Week Clips
1978 INA Clips
1979 Illinois Nurses Week Clips
1980 Illinois Nurses Week Clips
1980 INA Clips
1981 Illinois Nurses Week Clips
1982 Illinois Nurses Week Clips
1983Genereal News clips
1983 Nurses Week Clips
1984 Nurses week Clips
1985 Nurses Week Clips
1986 INA news Clips
Box 2
Folder 1: Illinois State Nurses’ Association Presidents 1901-1951
Folder 2: ISAGN Constitution and By Laws 1901
Folder 3: Articles of ISNA Incorporation and Bylaws, undated copy
Folder 4: The ISAGN Quarterly 1906 (ITS 25th. Anniversary Issue) (in museum)
Folder 5: The ISAGN Quarterly 1907
Folder 6: ISAGN First District Incorporation and By Laws Amended 1921
Folder 7: Bulletin, First District, ISAGN 1927
Folder 8: ISAGN banquet program, 1929
Folder 9: Letter to Van Frank, ISNA, re. Junior Nurse radio program—with script. 1937
Folder 10: Program for pageant of nursing career opportunities at Museum of Science and Industry, put on by First District, ISNA. 1947
Folder 11: INA Brochures 1980s
Folder 12: INA Questionnaire for Nurses’ Survey
Folder 13: Chart, INA publication. March 1958, September, November 1959, March, June 1960, November 1963, April 1968
Folder 14: Illinois Nursing Act 1951, 1965, 1976; Rules: 1950, 1964, 1972
Folder 15: Nursing School Costs, 1959
Folder 16: Nursing in Illinois 1968
Folder 17: AFL Ad. Chicago Registry, undated
Folder 18: AFL Ad. For union meeting 1939
Folder 19: Clippings 1939 re. unionization for nurses
Box 3
INA printers’ blocks