LEAR, Edith Mary (fl 1902-1940)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 G/PP1/32
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: LEAR, Edith Mary (fl 1902-1940)
Date(s)	: [1900-1940]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Lear | Edith Mary | fl 1902-1940 | nurse

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lear trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital, 1902-1905, gaining General Nursing Council registration in 1923.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photograph album belonging to Sister Edith M Lear, Guy's Hospital, containing black and white photographs of Guy's Hospital firm groups (including Lear), wards, patients, nursing staff, and portraits.
Also contains a number of loose photographs including group of nursing staff and men in military uniform, group of nursing staff, and images of Guy's Hospital.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 volume

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature on readers' undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Records Services.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

Acquired by Guy's Hospital Medical School Library

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred to King's College London archives, 2002.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Records of Guy's Hospital held at the London Metropolitan Archive.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
The Register of Nurses, 1940, The General Nursing Council for England and Wales, London. Compiled by Alison Field

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June 2004