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Madison County Archival Library on Illinois Digital Archives
Bertha Love, WWI Nurse- In Her Own Words
This collection features the World War I journals Army Nurse Bertha Love. Bertha was born in Hamel, Illinois. She left for active duty, assigned to Base Hospital Unit #21 in Rouen, France, in May of 1917. She served until April 1919.
Flaggs of Moro–Flagg Family Correspondence
This collection of letters features over 70 correspondents and spans two centuries. Prominent themes include land speculation in Illinois, local and national politics, and Madison County farm life. The collection centers on three generations of the Flagg family.
Picturing the History of Madison County- Selected Snapshots
This collection consists of a small sampling of the images in the Madison County Archival Library’s “P. Files” (picture files). The featured postcards, drawings, and photographs date from the 1800s to the 2000s and cover a wide variety of subjects.
Prepare, Prevent, Protect: 110 Years of the Edwardsville Fire Department
This collection of nearly 800 images documents the activities of the Edwardsville Fire Department from the 1890s through the 2000s. The photographs show the firefighters battling blazes, undergoing training, relaxing at the station, and interacting with the community.
Private and Real–A Collection of Correspondence Between Women
The letters in this collection document one side of a correspondence spanning 1888–92. Writer Anna “Nan” Howell and recipient Hannah “Hallie” Wade met at Monticello Female Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois. Nan’s frank and expressive writing gives us rare insight into the real lives and private thoughts of late nineteenth-century women.
Schoolhouses of Madison County
This collection features images of rural schoolhouses from all 23 townships in Madison County.
Bertha Love, WWI Nurse-Through Her Own Eyes
The images within this collection are pictures from World War I Army Nurse Bertha Love who served in Rouen, France, from May 1917 to April 1919. Bertha was a resident of Madison County born in Hamel, Illinois. She graduated from St. Luke's Hospital training school in 1905 and went on to work as a registered nurse of the hospital. Bertha left for active duty, assigned to Base Hospital Unit #21 in Rouen, in May of 1917. While in Rouen, she shuffled through many nursing positions on base such as a stint in the surgical hut, working with PTSD patients, and even a brief period of running the mess hall.
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