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Cherry Ames rural nurse / by Helen Wells.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7086
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Barbara Bates Center for History of Nursing - Fagin Hall 2U PZ7.W4644 RN 1961
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Helen, 1910-1986, author.
- Series:
- Wells, Helen, 1910-1986. Cherry Ames nurse stories ; 22.
- Cherry Ames stories ; [22]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ames, Cherry (Fictitious character)--Juvenile fiction.
- Ames, Cherry.
- Nurses--Juvenile fiction.
- Nurses.
- Rural nurses--Iowa--Juvenile fiction.
- Rural nurses.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Ames, Cherry (Fictitious character).
- Iowa.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Juvenile literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Doscher, Eileen (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 181, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap publishers, [1961]
- Summary:
- Cherry, the only public health nurse assigned to a rural county in southeastern Iowa, uncovers a phony folk medicine production operation using ginseng growing wild in swamp water tainted with harmful bacteria.
- Notes:
- Series numbering from dust jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Charles E. Rosenberg.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has stamp ("EILEEN DOSCHER"), possibly of Eileen M. Doscher (later Magaldi; b. 1963), on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 4127512
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