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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Amy Eleanor Wingreen
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Inventory of the Amy Eleanor Wingreen Papers, 1898-ca.1900
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2004. ©2004. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Wingreen, Amy Eleanor, 1870-1919 |
| Title | Amy Eleanor Wingreen Papers |
| Dates | 1898-ca.1900 |
| Extent | .2 cubic ft. (1 box) |
| Abstract | Material relating to Amy E. Wingreen's service as a nurse in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Consists of correspondence, mostly outgoing, memorabilia, photographs, a scrapbook of clippings and official letters and two manuscript narratives recounting her experiences. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Wingreen |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 44 2 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Amy Eleanor Wingreen Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Esther E. Turkington, Chicago, from the estate of Amy Eleanor Wingreen, date unknown.
Processed by
Virginia H. Smith, 2003.
Access
The Amy Eleanor Wingreen Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Amy Eleanor Wingreen Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Amy Eleanor Wingreen
Chicago nurse and expert in yellow fever care, who served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Little is known about Amy Eleanor Wingreen, except that she was a Chicago nurse trained at Cook County Hospital who was described as an expert in yellow fever cases. One of a group of nurses who left Chicago for Cuba during the Spanish-American War in July, 1898, she wrote about herself: "We are the first body of women to go out in the time of war under the Government of the United States. What we go to face we do not know." Nursing in a camp hospital in Siboney, Cuba, for little over a month, Wingreen too contracted fever, but continued with her work until leaving in late August.
Birth and date dates, which are included with her scrapbook (presumably by her executor, Esther Tarkington), are given as 1870-1919.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Includes letters, often reading like a diary, which Amy Wingreen sent to her sister, mother and nephew as she traveled from Chicago to Cuba and back again to New York and Washington in the summer of 1898, plus a small group of letters to her from relatives and friends of some of the soldiers she nursed. Also miscellaneous material relating to her medical service from April, 1898, to December, 1899; two narratives of her experiences, one by her and one by her (later) executor Esther Turkington; a scrapbook of clippings and official notes; and a group of photographs of the army hospital in Siboney, Cuba and some of the soldiers she nursed. Note: the Esther Turkington narrative is published in For Our Beloved Country, edited by Speer Morgan and Greg Michalson, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994.
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Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Turkington, Esther E.
- Wingreen, Amy Eleanor, 1870-1919
Subjects
- Correspondence - Cuba - 1898
- Correspondence - United States - 1898
- Manuscripts, American
- Military nursing - Cuba - History - 19th century - Sources
- Nurses - Cuba - History - 19th century - Sources
- Nurses - Illinois - Chicago - History - 19th century - Sources
- Photographs - Cuba -- 1898
- Spanish American War, 1898 - Cuba - Hospitals
- Spanish-American War, 1898 - Cuba - Personal narratives
- United States - Armed forces - Nurses - History -19th century - Sources
- Yellow fever - Cuba - History - 19th century - Sources
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1-3 | Correspondence, outgoing: July-Sept, 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence, incoming: Aug., 1898-Nov., 1899 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Memorabilia: Apr., 1898-Dec., 1899; n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Photographs: Cuban camp hospital | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Photographs: Soldiers of the Spanish-American War | |||||||||
| 1 | 8-9 | Scrapbook, photocopies: original at the end of folders | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Works: Amy E. Wingreen, ""Forty Days in the Wilderness" | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Works: Esther Turkington, "Unpublished Letters and Hospital Sketches by a Pioneer War Nurse" | |||||||||