Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 371

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEDICINE.) MAXWELL, CHRYSTALEE. Scrap Book of an African American Army Nurse. 27 large, loose folio (17 x 12 inch) leaves, filled with photographs, written material, as well a some printed material and clippings; the front cover is not present, rear cover bears a graphite portrait of Lieutenant Maxwell. should be seen. Vp, 1930s-1940s
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Chrystalee Maxwell, second lieutenant of the Army Nurse Corps, assembled this unusual scrap book. It contains a brief history her life as a nurse in pictures, with a full-page hand-written "dedication" from one of her teachers and mentors during her internship. Dr. J. Edward Perry writes regarding the three "S's: Sympathy, Service and Science." Ms. Lee graduated from Kansas City General Hospital School of Nursing. Other doctors write words of praise and advice. There are many sentiments from doctors and friends written throughout the book, as well as her graduating grades in all course, all above 90 to 100. There is material relative to her wartime military service in Africa including a photograph of her kneeling next to man on a stretcher with two corpsmen, an article headed "Lieutenant Maxwell Returns from Africa, and another article on the little Liberian child she adopted. Loosely laid in is a copy of "The African Nationalist," a newspaper from Monrovia. Also present are her NAACP card, and YWCA cards. Lt. Maxwell appears in G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II By Barbara Brooks Tomblin (Norton, 1945).