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Nurse on the Run
This sketch for the letter N (incorporating a bird hunter from Nigeria, two images of Niagara Falls, Mike's Newsstand, and a Nurse on the run) reminds me an oft-quoted remark from a Sri Lankan monk who now lives in West Virginia:
"Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. "
-Henepola Gunaratana
A nice thing to remember in this heat wave...
Nurse Nancy Beats the Heat, plus Nigeria and Niagara
I am afraid I've been enjoying summer too much to make may posts lately, and now have a backlog of material from the letter N.
So, without further ado, I'm going to upload a few scans from the picture collection's wonderful treasure trove of images of nurses, starting with a historical potpourri:
Some of my favorite images of nurses are from the covers of romance novels:
You can tell by the size that I'm partial to Hootenanny Nurse. But not all nurses were looking for romance...
Thinking that perhaps the guy above needs to be rolled over Niagara Falls, I looked at images of that quintessential American landmark next.
As usual, I'm a sucker for the 19th Century images. In the heat wave oppressing most of the U.S., a dip in the falls sounds pretty appealing.
Once I started traveling, I wanted to go further afield, and a few images from Nigeria caught my eye.
So, without further ado, I'm going to upload a few scans from the picture collection's wonderful treasure trove of images of nurses, starting with a historical potpourri:
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| 13th Century Nursing Sister |
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| 16th Century nurse, pictured in a 1959-60 Abbott Labs publication |
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| 1910 graduating class of African American nurses |
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| Gibson girl nurse from the early 1900s |
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| 1950s nursing uniforms |
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| 1960s nursing uniforms |
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| 1981 nurse on strike |
Some of my favorite images of nurses are from the covers of romance novels:
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Once I started traveling, I wanted to go further afield, and a few images from Nigeria caught my eye.
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| Despite the objectifying gaze of this 1938 photo, the strength and beauty of its subject are palpable. |
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| 1938 image of bird hunter |
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| The Oni of Ife, 1959 |
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| 1996 celebration of Kwaghir by the Tiv in Gboko |
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| 2007 Photo by Pieter Hugo of A Hyena Master These photos made me want to find out more about Calabar, a city in South-Eastern Nigeria, which has been a center for trade since at least the 16th century. I also wanted to learn more about the Tiv, who celebrate Kwaghir with traditional puppet shows and storytelling in their capital, Gboko, which is in North Central Nigeria. A long time ago, my dad had mentioned The Oni of Ife to me, he is the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Yoruba people and the current Oni, who prefers the spelling Ooni, has his own site. How will Nurses, Nigeria, Niagara, Newstands and Noise come together? Tune in soon for a few ideas. |
