3-078-024 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Doll Nurses at the Bazaar for the new Hospital for Women, Euston Road, 1890. 'The new Hospital for Women, in Euston-road, opposite St. Pancras Church, is a beneficent institution, to improve the funds of which a Grand Bazaar and Doll Show was opened by Lady Salisbury, wife of the Prime Minister, on Tuesday, April 29, in the Hospital building. She was accompanied by Lady Stanley of Alderley, and several Indian ladies, and was received by the Rev. J. Llewellyn Davies and the committee. Among the ladies who presided at the stalls, fourteen in number, were the Marchioness of Tweeddale. Countess Russell, the Hon. Maud Stanley, Mrs. Henry Fawcett, Miss Agnes Zimmermann, and Mrs. Beerbohm Tree. The other attractive features of the exhibition comprised an Indian temple, a "Home of Hygeia," arranged by the medical staff of the hospital, a shooting gallery, performances of magic and palmistry, and a great collection of dolls in costumes, grouped so as to represent scenes of history, the drama, and fiction; but the doll-nurses, of which we give some Illustrations, were especially appropriate. Concerts of music, pianoforte-playing by Mr. Ernest Hutcheson, and a recitation by Mr. Beerbohm Tree added more variety to the entertainments'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.