Camp Pike Nurses

More than 21,000 American women served as nurses during World War I. The nurses shown here are enjoying recreation hour at the nurses’ club at Camp Pike’s base hospital.

Group of white women in nursing uniforms socializing indoors in high-ceilinged room at "Base Hospital" at Camp Pike, Arkansas

Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

Media

Time Period

Early Twentieth Century (1901 - 1940)

Category

Medicine / Organizations / Science and Medicine

Type

Group

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Female

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