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Sisterhoods

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Women in charitable work
Church history
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Women in charitable work

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Images from the collections

Images about Sisterhoods

9 images from works
  • A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • A nun (Sister of Charity) feeding a sick patient. Line engraving by C. Duflos.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.

Works from the collections

9 works

    • Pictures

    Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.

    | Reference: 17756i
    • Books

    Skin & blister. Part 2 / [Sister Magazine].

    Sister Magazine | Date: [2017]
    • Books

    Geschichte des Diakoniewerkes Kaiserswerth unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Pädiatrischer Krankheitsbilder / Ruth Klein.

    Klein, Ruth. | Date: 1993
    • Books

    The origins of nursing by the Sisters of Mercy in the United States, 1843-1910 / by Mary Patricia Tarbox.

    Tarbox, Mary Patricia. | Date: 1986
    • Pictures

    Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.

    | Reference: 17755i

Related topics

Beneficence
Nuns
Monasticism and religious orders
Costume
Nurses
Kindness
Human comfort
Spiritual works of mercy

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