The International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection features 93 hand-colored photographs of nurses in their national uniforms by the Helene Fuld Health Foundation (an organisation dedicated to the “relief of poverty, suffering, sickness and distress”).
In 1950 the United Nations and World Health Organization were new and hopeful institutions; internationalism was rising. After the terrible war that had just been fought, a new global order seemed to be emerging. The Fuld Foundation surely intended these photographs to contribute to that order, to promote a utopian ideal of global harmony.
The uniform commands respect. You put it on and you become something.
Nurse wearing uniform from Egypt
Nurse wearing uniform from Hong Kong
Nurse wearing uniform from Israel
Nurse wearing uniform from England
Nurse wearing uniform from Scotland
Nurse wearing uniform from Zanzibar
Nurse wearing uniform from Jerusalem
![Nurse wearing uniform from Northern Ireland]](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nurses-1950-32.jpg)
Nurse wearing uniform from Northern Ireland
Nurse wearing uniform from Morocco
![[Nurse wearing uniform from Colombia]](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nurses-1950-6.jpg)
[Nurse wearing uniform from Colombia
Nurse wearing uniform from Lebanon
Nurse wearing uniform from India
Nurse wearing uniform from Surinam
Nurse wearing uniform from Germany
Nurse wearing uniform from Cape Colony
Nurse wearing uniform from Sudan
Nurse wearing uniform from Indonesia
Nurse wearing uniform from Luxembourg
Nurse wearing uniform from Denmark
Nurse wearing uniform from Egypt
Nurse wearing uniform from Nepal
Nurse wearing uniform from Sudan
Nurse wearing uniform from Thailand
Nurse wearing uniform from France
Nurse wearing uniform from Peru
Nurse wearing uniform from Tunisia
Nurse wearing uniform from Canada
Via: National Library of Medicine
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