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Kōrero: Clothes

Nurses' uniforms, 1913

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Nurses' uniforms, 1913

The profession of this group of women is unmistakable. Stiff white caps, clean white aprons over long plain gowns and star-shaped registration medals proclaim them as nurses. The apron-less woman in the centre was probably the matron.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Steffano Webb Collection (PAColl-3061)

Reference: 1/1-005392-G

by Steffano Francis Webb

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Fiona McKergow, Clothes – Uniforms, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/41159/nurses-uniforms-1913 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Fiona McKergow, i tāngia i te 18 March 2013.