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1916-1928 (Creation)
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- Ross, Anna T.
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5 cm of textual records.
2 photograph albums (302 photographs: sepia, b&w; 10 x 15 cm or smaller).
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Anna (“Nan”) Tufts Ross was born August 9, 1905 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada. She lived with her parents Herman B. Ross, a jeweler, and Bessie F. (Graham) Ross, younger sister Jean, grandmother and elderly great aunt and great uncle. At the age of 17 she was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), a disease affecting breathing, and sent to the Nova Scotia Sanatorium (“The San”) in Kentville, NS in the fall of 1922 for treatment. She lived there, with periodic trips home to Pictou, until the summer of 1926. She trained as a nurse, graduating from Eagleville Hospital and Sanatorium in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, United States in October 1928. For the next 20 years she worked at the Prince Edward Island TB sanatorium in Charlottetown, PE, and at Sutherland Memorial Hospital in Pictou, NS until health issues in her lungs appeared again. She died April 5, 1950 on the train to Kentville.
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Donated to Nova Scotia Archives by her niece Mary Bourgeois in October 2016.
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Fonds consists of photographs in albums with captions, notebooks of Anna’s original poems and poems she collected, and her diaries for 1924, documenting her time as a tuberculosis patient at the Nova Scotia Sanatorium. The photographs include images of friends, fellow patients, social outings, medical staff and the hospital grounds, views of Kentville, the Eagleville Hospital and Sanatorium in Pennsylvania, USA, Anna as a student nurse there with classmates, and a few images of family and her home in Pictou. The notebooks include Anna’s poetry writing, poems written to her by friends and poems she copied or clipped from newspapers, including several by Robert W. Service. Her diaries show her daily routine and interactions with people. Also includes a book based on her diaries and photographs: “Good-bye Little Rest Chair: The San in 1924” / by Anna Tufts Ross, with introduction by compiler and editor Mary Bourgeois (self-published with home computer).
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Larger album has multiple loose pages. Some photographs removed prior to donation.
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See Nova Scotia Archives Library Good-bye Little Rest Chair: The San in 1924 by Anna Tufts Ross, with introduction by Mary Bourgeois (self-published).