Photograph Collections

Overview of Records

Repository: Providence Archives, Seattle, WA

Date: c. 1890s-1970s

Abstract: Photographs document the facilities, personnel, departments, and activities of St. Peter Hospital and its staff.

Quantity:  5 linear feet (11 boxes plus photo albums and oversize)

Administrative Information

Restrictions: Providence Archives is a private repository; access to some records is at the discretion of the archivist.

Preferred Citation: [Description of number of cited item].  (72) St. Peter Hospital Photograph Collection, Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington.

Accession Information: These photographs were transferred to the Archives from the hospital and from sisters who worked there over a period of years.

Processing Information: Photographs were added over the years by Archives.  A typed inventory was created and the collection re-housed in May 2002 by Peter Schmid. The collection was processed August 2003 by Peter Schmid.

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Series A: Facilities

A1 Building 1 (1887-1924)

A2 Building 2 (1928-71)

Dates: 1928; 1943; 1966; n.d.

A3 Building 3 (1971-)

Dates: 1970; 1976; 1979-80; 1989; n.d.

A4 Martin Way Annex

Dates: 1976

A5 [vacated]

A6 Plat Maps

Dates: 1919; 1924

Plats and property history by Sr. Anatolie of Montreal.

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Series B: Personnel

B1 Administrators: Claire Gagnon

Dates: n.d.

B2 Clergy

Dates: 1976; n.d.

B3 Lay Employees

Dates: 1957; 1968-69; 1991; 1996-97; n.d.

B4 Nurses

Dates: n.d.

B5 Sisters

Dates: 1915; 1926; 1929; 1932; 1937; 1956; 1962; 1965-66; 1968-72; 1974; 1976-77; 1987; n.d.

B6 Medical Staff

Dates: 1908; 1945; n.d.

B7 Administrators: Ernestine Marie

Dates: n.d.

B8 Administrators: David Bjornson

Dates: 1972; 1977-78; 1980; 1982; n.d.

B9 Advisory Board

Dates: 1967; 1969; n.d.

B10 Boards & Councils

Dates: 1984; n.d.

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Series C: Departments

C1 Admitting

Dates: 1991; n.d.

C2 Auxiliary

Dates: 1955; 1985-86; 1988; n.d.

C3 Business Office

Dates: 1976; n.d.

C4 Critical Care Unit

Dates: 1985; 1992-93; n.d.

C5 Cancer Center

Dates: 1991; 1993-94

C6 Central Supply

Dates: 1976; n.d.

C7 Chemical Dependency Program

Dates: 1987; n.d.

C8 Chapel

Dates: 1945; n.d.

C9 Community Care Clinic

Dates: 1993; 1997; n.d.

C10 Diabetes Care Center

Dates: 1991; n.d.

C11 Diagnostic Imaging

Dates: 1976; n.d.

C12 Emergency

Dates: n.d.

See also Helicopter, C40.

C13 Fitness Center

Dates: n.d.

C14 Fund Raising

Dates: 1967; 1973; 1988

C15 Heart Program

Dates: 1991-93; 1996; 1999; n.d.

C16 Laboratory

Dates: 1976-77

C17 Laundry

Dates: n.d.

C18 Lithotripsy

Dates: n.d.

C19 [vacated]

C20 Maternity

Dates: 1985-86; n.d.

C21 Medical Records

Dates: n.d.

C22 Mission Effectiveness

Dates: n.d.

C23 Nursery

Dates: 1991; n.d.

C24 Nursing Services

Dates: 1992; n.d.

C25 Nutrition & Dietetics

Dates: 1993; n.d.

C26 Operating Room

Dates: 1924; 1970; 1982; 1992; n.d.

C27 Pastoral Care

Dates: 1976; 1979

C28 Public Relations

Dates: n.d.

C29 Hematology

Dates: 1976; n.d.

C30 Patients

Dates: 1940; 1983; 1986; 1991; 1993-94; n.d.

C31 Pediatrics

Dates: 1980; n.d.

C32 Pharmacy

Dates: 1940; 1976; n.d.

C33 Rehabilitation

Dates: 1983; 1992; n.d.

C34 Senior Services

Dates: n.d.

C35 Security

Dates: 1990-91

C36 Sound Home Health Care

Dates: 1985-86; n.d.

C37 Switchboard

Dates: 1976; n.d.

C38 Lifeline

Dates: n.d.

C39 Community Care Clinic

Dates: n.d.

C40 Helicopter

Dates: n.d.

See also Emergency, C12.

C41 Business Health Services

Dates: 1994; n.d.

C42 MRI

Dates: n.d.

C43 Dialysis

Dates: 1991; 1997; n.d.

C44 Home Infusion Therapy

Dates: n.d.

C45 Health Foundation

Dates: 1989

C46 Perinatal Clinic

Dates: n.d.

C47 Oncology

Dates: n.d.

C48 Valet Services

Dates: n.d.

C49 Community Care Dental Clinic

Dates: 1996; n.d.

C50 Laser Center

Dates: n.d.

C51 Family Practice

Dates: 1991-92; 1994; 1997; n.d.

C52 Cataract & Eye Center

Dates: n.d.

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Series D: School of Nursing

D1 Class Portraits

Dates: 1927; 1930; 1941-48; 1952; 1955; 1965

D2 Cadet Corps

Dates: 1945; n.d.

D3 Students

Dates: 1921; 1930; 1941-43; 1960; n.d.

D4 Alumni/Reunions

Dates: 1987

D5 History of Nursing Class

Dates: 1952-53

Photographs removed from “History of Nursing Class” scrapbook by SRB, 1999. Includes excellent photographs of the facility (a rare cyanotype dated  June 1876), departments, etc.

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Series E: School of Practical Nursing

E1 Facilities

Dates: n.d.

Includes exteriors and interiors, some with students.

E2 Director

Dates: 1968; n.d.

Sr. Mary Cabrini.

E3 Faculty & Sisters

Dates: 1966; 1968; n.d.

E4 Class Portraits

Dates: 1955-70

E5 Students

Dates: 1955; 1960; 1964-68; 1970; n.d.

E6 Capping & Graduation Ceremonies

Dates: 1969; n.d.

E7 Classroom Instruction

Dates: 1955; 1967; n.d.

E8 Clinical Training

Dates: 1967; n.d.

E9 Activities

Dates: 1958; 1960; 1967; 1969; n.d.

E10 Alumni & Reunions

Dates: 1974-76; 1981; 1986-87; 1990; n.d.

E11 Development Program

Dates: 1967

E12 Exhibits

Dates: 1958; 1963-64; 1967; 1987

E13 Scholarships

Dates: 1966-67; n.d.

E14 Miscellaneous Class Photos

Dates: 1960-61; n.d.

Photographs removed from scrapbook in 1999.

E15 Class of 1967

Photographs removed from scrapbook in 1999.

E16 Class of 1968

Photographs removed from scrapbook in 1999.

E17 Class of 1969

Photographs removed from scrapbook in 1999.

E18 Class of 1970

Photographs removed from scrapbook in 1999.

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Series F: Subjects

F1 One-hundredth Anniversary (1987)

F2 American Institute of Architects Citation for Excellence

Dates: n.d.

F3 Earth Day

Dates: 1993

F4 Dedication of Ensign Road (1988)

F5 Dedication of Mental Health Unit

Dates: n.d.

F6 Dedication of Mother Gamelin Portrait

Dates: n.d.

F7 Dedication of Mother Joseph Statue in Olympia (1980)

F8 Dedication of New Hospital (1971)

F9 Golf Classic

Dates: n.d.

F10 Groundbreaking (1968)

F11 Groundbreaking (1977-78)

F12 Groundbreaking (1991)

F13 Groundbreaking (1999)

F14 Phase VII "Topping Out" (1983)

F15 Phase VII Opening (1984)

F16 Picnics

Dates: 1992-93; n.d.

F17 Run for Pete's Sake

Dates: 1981; n.d.

F18 Statues

Dates: 1987; n.d.

F19 Sunshine House

Dates: 1988; n.d.

F20 Construction

Dates: 1983

F21 Bid Opening for New Building (1969)

F22 Cornerstone Contents (1924)

Photographs were placed in the cornerstone of the 1924 building at a blessing ceremony on 3-19-1924. The capsule was opened in 2005. Included are portraits and images of the building.

F23 Cornerstone Contents (1971)

Photographs were placed in the cornerstone of the 1971 building at a blessing ceremony on 12-6-1970. The capsule was opened in 2005. Included are portraits and images of the building. Photographs are of Lacey Mayor A.G. Homann (who was also a member of St. Peter’s Lay Advisory Board); Governor Dan Evans; and Olympia Mayor Thomas P. Allen.

F24 National Nurses’ Week

Dates: 1982; 1996; n.d.

F25 United Way Day of Caring

Dates: 1998

F26 25th Anniversary of Lilly Road Facility (1997)

F27 Centennial Celebration (1987)

F28 Move to Lilly Street Facility (1972)

F29 One Hundred and Tenth Anniversary (1997)

F30 Lobby Remodel

Dates: 1993

F31 Community Resources Fair

Dates: n.d.

F32 Ambulatory Services Building Construction

Dates: n.d.

F33 Professional Building Construction

Dates: 1990

F34 MRI Construction

Dates: n.d.

F35 Phase VII Construction

Dates: 1980; n.d.

F36 Building 3 Construction

Dates: 1968-70

F37 Tipper Gore

Dates: 1999

F38 Y2K “Command Center”

Dates: 1999

F39 “Happening”

Dates: 1989; 1991; 1993; n.d.

F40 Documents

Dates: 1924

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Series G: Chronological File

(Negatives & proof sheets in binders).

G1 1973

G2 1975

G3 1976

G4 1977

G5 1978

G6 1979

G7 1980

G8 1980-81

G9 1984

G10 1985-86 & "assorted years"

G11 1986 ("some"); 1988-89

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Series H: Slides

H1 Facilities

Dates: 1980; 1975; 1987; n.d.

H2 Nutrition & Dietetics

Dates: 1973; 1975; n.d.

H3 Emergency

Dates: 1973; 1984; n.d.

H4 Helicopter

Dates: 1973

H5 Blood Bank

Dates: n.d.

H6 Laboratory

Dates: 1973; 1975

H7 Medical Records

Dates: n.d.

H8 Nursery

Dates: 1973

H9 Nursing Services

Dates: 1973; 1981; n.d.

H10 Laundry

Dates: 1973

H11 Pharmacy

Dates: 1973; n.d.

H12 Gift Shop

Dates: 1973; 1980-81

H13 Chapel

Dates: 1980

H14 Tenth Anniversary of New Building (1981)

H15 Switchboard

Dates: 1973

H16 Admitting

Dates: 1973

H17 Psychiatric Unit

Dates: 1984

H18 Sunshine House

Dates: n.d.

H19 Lithotripsy

Dates: n.d.

H20 Diagnostic Imaging

Dates: 1987

H21 Mother Joseph Statue

Dates: 1987

H22 Patients

Dates: 1981; 1986-87

H23 Pediatrics

Dates: 1984

H24 Operating Room

Dates: n.d.

H25 Sleep Lab

Dates: n.d.

H26 Physical Therapy

Dates: 1981

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Series I: Postcards

I1 Building 1 (1887-1924)

I2 Building 2 (1924-71)

I3 Building 3 (1971-    )

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