Photograph, Silver Gelatin: Nurses outside of the Ottawa Protestant Children's Hospital c.1901
Entry/Object ID
2018.005.01.01
Description
One rectangular, sepia-toned silver gelatin photograph mounted to heavy black cardstock depicting six nurses in uniform outside of the Ottawa Protestant Children's Hospital c.1901. The photograph shows three nurses sitting and three nurses standing behind them among the plants of the garden in front of the Ottawa Protestant Children's Hospital located at 197-199 Wurtemburg Street in Sandy Hill, Ottawa (today's Embassy of the Republic of Turkey).
Nurse sitting on the viewer's left is identified as Harriet Corinthia Peck.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
W.J. Topley
Role
Photographer
Artist
William Topley
Role
Photographer
Date made
1900
Place
City
OTTAWA
County
ONTARIO
Country
Canada
Notes
Quantity produced: 1
Topley Photo mark on front, lower left.
Additional create date: 1901
paper, papier, Card
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Transcription
'Sitting on left / Harriet Corinthia Peck / ? maybe at Cantra Ileaneas (?) / where she was superintendent of nurses // or at K.G.H. where she graduated in 1900'
Notes
On reverse ; in pencil and blue ink
Position Notes: On reverse
Despite inscription, the photograph location has been identified as the Ottawa Protestant Children's Hospital on Wurtemburg Street, Sandy Hill, Ottawa.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Legacy Lexicon
Object Name
Photograph, Silver gelatin
Dimensions
Height
27.3 cm
Width
35 cm
Dimension Notes
2018-12-10
Dimension Description
Image
Height
19.3 cm
Width
24.4 cm
Dimension Notes
2018-12-10
Research Notes
Notes
Result: Identified
Built in the Tudor style by Fisheries Commissioner William F. Whitcher in 1869, the Ottawa Protestant Children's Hospital (1888-1905) was located at 197-199 Wurtemburg Street in Sandy Hill. It was originally run by the Children' League, the President of the League being Lady Stanley, however, by the turn of the century it was deeply in debt and was forced to close shortly thereafter. It became the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in 1953.
Harriet Peck was born on Prince Edward Island in 1873 and trained as a nurse at the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1900. On the 1901 Canada Census she is listed as a trained nurse working and living at the Ottawa Children's Hospital.
Notes
Result: Identified
Harriet Peck was born on Prince Edward Island in 1873 and trained as a nurse at the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1900. On the 1901 Canada Census she is listed as a trained nurse working and living at the Ottawa Children's Hospital.
