A set of toy rubber hand puppets from the Bjoring Center
A family or rubber hand puppets in a set used by pediatric NPs in the '70s to teach kids about hospitals.

The Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry contains thousands of artifacts—letters, photographs, diaries, clothing, and medical and nursing equipment and books from the past—that offer a glimpse into the practices and experiences of nurses across time.

Included in its collections is a disparate selection of toys, games, and tools, which offer a vantage on pediatric and public health nursing as well as early promotional items meant to entice children to consider products or urge them toward the profession. Today's Flashback Friday takes look at a few of those objects BY THE NUMBERS.

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Number of puppets in a set used by pediatric NPs in the '70s to teach kids about hospitals

Included in its collections is a disparate selection of toys, games, and tools, which offer a vantage on pediatric and public health nursing as well as early promotional items meant to entice children to consider products or urge them toward the profession. A look at a few of those objects BY THE NUMBERS.

Today's Flashback Friday brought to you by the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, which was established at UVA in 1991 to support historical scholarship in nursing. Dedicated to the preservation and study of nursing history, the Bjoring Center collects historical materials, promotes nursing history scholarship, and disseminates historical research findings.

The center hosts a regular series of nursing history forums, sponsors an annual Agnes Dillon Randolph Award and lecture, awards annual research fellowships, and publishes a newsletter. Read our special 30th-anniversary publication, Object Lessons.

The center is open to researchers and visitors Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., or by appointment. Please contact the center to schedule an appointment.

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