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![Victorian Order of Nurses uniforms, [194-], published February 1973 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/126/153-002.jpg?width=280)
Victorian Order of Nurses uniforms
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34884
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [194-], published February 1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.8 x 12.6 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three women modelling Victorian Order of Nurses uniforms. "The VON uniform has changed through the years - left, the 1898 version; centre, the 1925 model and on the right, the style of 1940."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [194-], published February 1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Victorian Order of Nurses subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.8 x 12.6 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 153-002
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- BHS1985-26
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three women modelling Victorian Order of Nurses uniforms. "The VON uniform has changed through the years - left, the 1898 version; centre, the 1925 model and on the right, the style of 1940."
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Victorian Order of Nurses uniforms, [194-], published February 1973 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/126/153-002.jpg)
Nurse Elizabeth Smellie
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65536
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- December 1940
- Collection/Fonds
- Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 23.5 x 19 cm, matted in frame 35 x 28 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of VON nurse Elizabeth Smellie in uniform. She was Chief Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses from 1924 to May 1947, except during World War II, when she was called back into the Canadian army as Colonel and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Women's Army Medical Corps from 1940 …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- December 1940
- Collection/Fonds
- Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 23.5 x 19 cm, matted in frame 35 x 28 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 153-074
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2010-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of VON nurse Elizabeth Smellie in uniform. She was Chief Superintendent of the Victorian Order of Nurses from 1924 to May 1947, except during World War II, when she was called back into the Canadian army as Colonel and Matron-in-chief of the Canadian Women's Army Medical Corps from 1940 until 1944. She was the first woman to achieve the rank of colonel in the Canadian army.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Karsh, Yousuf
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photographer’s name "Karsh" signed on recto of card mount at bottom left, “Elizabeth Smellie” signed on card mount at bottom right.
- Sticker on verso of frame reads: “Framed by The Stride Studios / Chas. E. Stride / 657 Columbia St. New Westminster B.C. / We carry an exclusive line of framed pictures”