Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Caption |
Group of nurses & Ella Rusch |
Description |
Black & white photograph of a group of eleven unidentified nurses dressed in white pinafores and caps. Ella Rusch is standing at right and is dressed in her white nurse's uniform. Possibly taken in Sioux Falls, SD where Ella worked as a nursing supervisor. The group is posed outside a frame building with stone foundation. Mounted on tan photo board. Ella Rusch was born June 20, 1885, daughter of August and Bertha Tews Rusch. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1905 and began nurses training at the Lutheran hospital in LaCross, Wisconsin, where she graduated in 1908. She served as superintendent of nurses in Sioux Falls, SD from 1909-1914. She worked at Emmanuel Lutheran hospital in Mankato from 1915-1920 and returned to Hutchinson because of her father's illness. She was employed by Dr. O. W. Scholpp until 1937 after which she served as a private nurse. She retired from nursing in 1948 because of ill health and died March 1, 1955. Her record of OB cases of 1922-1936 delivered by Dr. Scholpp at Hutchinson Community Hospital is 2016-0112-081. Photo 2012-0182-001 of a nurse holding a newborn might be Ella Rusch. |
Catalog Number |
2016-0112-085 |
Search Terms |
Nurses Rusch Family |
Subjects |
Nurses |
People |
Rusch, Ella |