Margaret Buchanan biographical file
Abstract
Biographical file contains one letter, one newspaper clipping, and an obituary. Margaret Buchanan donated several scrapbooks to the 300th General Hospital Collection which is a part of the Medical Center Archives housed in the Eskind Library Archives.
Dates
- 1942 - 2007
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Reproduction Rights
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Historical or Biographical Note
Margaret Buchanan, R.N., was a native of Dixon, TN and graduated from the St. Thomas Hospital Nursing School in Nashville. She volunteered to serve as a surgical nurse in Vanderbilt's 300th General Hospital Unit during WW II and was stationed in Naples, Italy throughout the war. After the War she worked as a nurse at the Thayer Veterans Hospital in Nashville. During her retirement she was very active in organizing reunions of the staff of the 300th General Hospital Unit and in preserving the history of this unit. She presented this collection to the Eskind Biomedical Library in 1994.
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0 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Margaret Buchanan biographical file
- Author
- Processed by EBL Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2010-05-18
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is inEnglish.
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu