Documentation and Research
The Documentation and Research series deals with the collection of information from the interviewers and subjects. This includes correspondence before and after the interview, release forms, background information on the nurses, outlines of interviews, and photographs of the interviewees. Some of the files contain miscellaneous historical documents supplied by the subjects of the interviews. In 1996 Schim conducted a second round of interviews in conjunction with her dissertation research. Transcripts from these second interviews are included in the files. Interviews with transcripts are indicated in the inventory. For the interviews without transcripts, the outlines contain a general index of the wide variety of subjects covered on the cassette tape. For example, the interview outline with Florence Vander Woude indicates a discussion of her involvement with the University of Michigan affiliated 298th General Hospital unit during World War II in addition to discussion of her career in community health.