Florence Nightingale, founder of Nightingale Training School for Nurses
Florence Nightingale’s legacy is that she opened the first official nurses’ training program in 1860. Before this, the sick were taken care of in monasteries by monks and nuns. It was looked down upon to be a nurse and it was not considered professional. When she founded the school, she became known as the Lady with the Lamp, for patrolling the halls of the hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War. She is today accredited as a pioneer of modern day nursing. She also had contributions to writing and statistics.
Uniforms of this time become a little more practical and are often coupled with shouldercovering capes called tippets such as in the photograph on the right. These images were photographed by Joel Feder between 1917 and 1919