Small Archive of Ephemera and Material Documenting her Nursing Career and Time as Superintendent of Gouverneur Hospital, 1895-1921
This archive highlights the life of a remarkable nurse at two New York City hospitals, City Hospital on Blackwell Island [now Roosevelt Island] and the Lower East Side’s Gouverneur Hospital at the turn of the 20th century. Jessie A. Stowers, born and raised in Waddington, New York, wanted a different.....