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Scrubbing in for surgery

A young woman lathers up to her elbow at a sink. She is looking at the camera, and despite her surgical mask, her eyes are smiling. She is wearing elements of a nurses' uniform, though she is sleeveless. She wears her hair entirely covered in a protective cap.

Date: 1956.

Credit: The Miss Margaret Robins Archives of Women’s College Hospital, Graduate nurses’ collection, NUR-57.

A student nurse gets ready to enter the operating room at Women’s College Hospital. Students were assigned rotations in different departments in the hospital, most lasting 3 months.