Mary Ward photographs of West Africa

A collection of loose prints by various photographers. All relate to the life and career of Mary Alexandria Ward, MBE, RRC (1866-1965). Most of the captions are from information supplied by Dr Rachel Elliott; those in brackets are descriptive captions prepared by the Librarian.

Mary Alexandria Ward was born in 1866. After nursing training in Tottenham, she was on the staff of the Princess Christian Hospital in Sierra Leone, 1892-1897, was in Government service in Nigeria from 1899-1917 (during which she took charge of the base hospital at Cape Coast during the Ashanti Campaign of 1900) and from 1917-1930 was again at the Princess Christian Hospital as Honorary Matron. She died in 1965.

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Presented by Dr Rachel Elliott in 1985-86.

Includes index.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

The photographs formed part of a gift including correspondence and other papers, and are kept with this material at RCMS 134.

'Sister Ward of West Africa' in 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 273 (1986), pp. 1-5, describes Mary Ward's career and gives an outline list of this collection.

This item level description was entered by MJC using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Ward, Mary Alexandria, 1866-1965, nurse