Florence Nightingale memorial collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2015-3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection contains material about Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War, the Victorian era, and the history of nursing collected and created by Country Joe McDonald, dated 1831-2009. It contains McDonald writings and research, including scripts, song lyrics, film treatments, website, and photocopies of Florence Nightingale correspondence and writings. Also included are ephemera, audio and visual recordings, photographs, and printed material, including clippings, booklets, event programs, maps and travel guides, museum and park brochures, and postcards. The collection includes a number of rare books, searchable through the UCSF Library catalog.

Dates

Creation: 1831 - 2009

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. The non-circulating rare book collection is searchable through the UCSF Library catalog and is available to researchers in the Archives and Special Collections reading room.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright has not been assigned to the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Biographical / Historical

Country Joe McDonald (1942-) is a singer, songwriter, social advocate, and co-founder of the Country Joe and the Fish rock band. He began researching and collecting material about Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War, and the Victorian era in 1981. He eventually built the website, “Country Joe McDonald’s Tribute to Florence Nightingale.” Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a British nurse, statistician, and social reformer. She was born in Florence, Italy, and raised at Lea Hurst in Derbyshire and Embley Park in Hampshire. She managed the nursing of British and allied forces during the Crimean War at Scutari. She established the Nightingale School of Nursing in London in 1860 and set up training for midwives and nurses in workhouses. In 1907 she was awarded the Order of Merit.

Extent

8 Linear Feet (1 carton, 1 box, 1 oversized box, 76 rare books)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Collection contains material regarding Florence Nightingale and the history of nursing collected and created by Country Joe McDonald. It includes McDonald writings and research, printed material, audiovisual and graphic material, ephemera, and rare books, dated 1831-2009.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five series: Series I: Country Joe McDonald research and writings, 1855-2009; Series II: Ephemera and artifacts, undated; Series III: Audiovisual material, 1988-2006; Series IV: Printed material, 1855-2008; Series V: Rare books, 1831-2008.

Other Finding Aids

An item level inventory is available in the UCSF Archives and Special Collections. Please contact the Head Archivist for access.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was donated to the UCSF archives on September 15, 2014 by Country Joe McDonald.

Separated Materials

Rare books are housed as a non-circulating named collection searchable through the UCSF Library catalog and available to researchers in the Archives and Special Collections reading room. Duplicate rare books were removed from the collection and returned to donor.