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Historical Fergus Falls, Minnesota Training School for Nurses Graduates 1898




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In 1898, these young women were among the first "Trained Nurses" in Minnesota from Fergus Falls. Nurses in St. Paul created the first professional registry in the United States the same year. They would remain "Trained Nurses" for several more years until North Carolina would enacted the first U.S. nursing board in 1903 allowing nurses to take an exam to become the first R.N.'s in the United States.
Original graduation photographs from Training Schools in the 1800's are very rare historical documents and this photograph is among them from Fergus Falls.

This original class of four nurses was taken at Overland Gallery ran by A.P. Overland which was located in Fergus Falls 1898-1899 and then moved to 427 East Second in Two Harbors, Minnesota.

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