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1934 · 003089 — Chicago: Chicago School of Nursing 1934. First Edition. Good. Twenty three lessons bound consequitively and with publication dates from 1934 to 1936; 9 1/4 x 7; pp. 460 altogether; dark-blue leatherette binder decorated with a vignette of a nurse; a shoelace string through two metal eyelets binds the cover and booklets; illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings; manuscript date at head of each title 1936 and faint signature of previous owner to first title page; boards with wear along spine and corners; occasional minor spot to margins of text; last lesson detached but present; in good to very good condition. The Chicago School of Nursing was a correspondence school founded by Dr. Orville Juan Perkins in 1899 and incorporated in 1909. Its course was billed as "the first largest and most popular of the home study nursing programs" and encompassed 53 lessons. Examinations were administered periodically by mail and the exam questions could be found at the end of the lessons. Although the lessons did provide thorough theorethical knowledge it could not offer valuable hands-on experience and the program was shut down sometime in the mid-20th century. Chicago School of Nursing hardcover