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Blue album (with a gold 'Photographs' stamp on the cover) containing square-format black and white photographs of nurses, wards and buildings at Hyde Park Corner, including multiple pictures of an 'S. Jones' (apparently short for Sister Jones; other names have an 'N.' prefix for 'Nurse'). Captions have been added, possibly at a later date: the first photograph is dated 1903, but the album has a faint inscription (written by/to an 'Alastair') seemingly dated 1919.

Also includes a set of reproductions of the photographs (larger than the originals, but cropped to a rectangular format) made by Gordon Catford (c.1980s-1990s?).

Papers refer to Ewart; Ford; Rolleston; Isambard Owen; Ogle; Dickinson; Frost; Jaffrey; Pendlebury; and other individuals

Students register of fees and payments; includes entries for Ewart; Frankau; Ingleby; amongst others; volume also contains an index and some loose letters relating to tuition fees and other matters

Bulk of papers date from 1945-1948

Papers refer to Pendlebury; Ewart; Collier; Jex Blake; Frost; Jaffrey; English; Sheild; Dent; and other individuals; Papers also refer to the Medical School Council merging with the Medical School Committee in 1907.

Minutes of meetings; papers refer to Dent; Ewart; Rolleston; Ogle; Latham; Jaffrey; Pendlebury; and other individuals

Papers refer to Spriggs; Nachber; English; Dent; Turner; Jex Blake; Back; Collier; and other individuals

Papers refer to Jaffrey; Ogle; Spriggs; Golla; Stabb; Fox; Dent; Turner; Pendlebury; Bull; Fedden; Slater; Rolleston; and other individuals

Black and white and colour photographs of groups of student/pupil nurses and staff at St James' Hospital (excluding those taken at prizegivings, for which see NU/6/2/5/4), including photographs featuring cast members of the BBC nursing soap opera 'Angels', which was filmed at the hospital. Also includes an early sepia image (c. 1910s-1920s?) which is not explicitly labelled as St James', but was stored with the rest of this material.

Note that more St James' group photographs can be found in the albums NU/6/1/1/4-6.

Military medals and insignia, the majority of which relate to nursing service in the First World War. Includes:

• British War Medal [for service in First World War]
• Cross of Mercy [issued by the Kingdom of Serbia]
• Order of St John serving sister's breast badge [engraved 'J. E. Wheatley' on the reverse]
• Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve medal
• Royal Red Cross, 1st class [in presentation box]
• Royal Red Cross, 2nd class [x 2, in presentation boxes]
• Victory Medal
• set of three medals on bar: 1914 Star [engraved 'J. E. Wheatley' on reverse], Royal British Nursing Association membership badge [engraved 'J. E. Wheatley' on reverse], Victory Medal
• dress set of five miniature Second World War medals on bar: Royal Red Cross, 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal
• four ribbon bars, of which two feature ribbons corresponding to the WW2 medal set and two feature the silver Maltese cross of the Order of St John
• armband bearing the entwined 'AA' monogram of Queen Alexandra [presumably relating to Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service?]

Personal artefacts presumably donated to the League by nurses, including:

• 3 metal badges (St George's Hospital, RLOH [Royal Liverpool Orthopaedic Hospital?] cross, IHNCF [Inter-Hospital Nurses' Christian Fellowship]), c.20th century
• items of cotton/lace nurses' uniforms: 4 belts, 2 cuffs, 5 caps/collars [?], c.20th century

Black and white group photographs of student and staff nurses, many featuring matron Muriel Powell. Some are annotated with names or accompanied with a typed list. Includes at least one photograph of nurses from Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton who were based for part of their training at St George's. Also includes two older water-damaged photographs of student and staff nurses (c.1910s-1920s) mounted on oversize boards, which can be identified as St George's from the list of names written on the reverse of one of them (which includes future matron Helen Hanks).

Early black and white photographs (i.e. 19th-early 20th century – mostly reproductions) of groups of nurses and hospital wards, including four images mounted on board and an oversize poster reproducing a series of photographs taken in America entitled 'What It Means to Be a Trained Nurse' (originally published in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1898 – also includes second sheet with accompanying article text).

Miscellaneous portrait/personal photographs of unnamed nurses and named figures including Mrs E. Bonniwell and Duncan and Sylvia Baker, as well as a set of photographs of a leaving party labelled 'Miss Parker leaving, Oct 1983'. Two of the portraits are framed, one in a green case with an accompanying typed letter identifying it as Helen Haig-Brown (sister of Florence Haig-Brown) and the other in a frame with a torn label missing the nurse's name (but stating that she worked as principal sister tutor, apparently at St George's).

Papers refer to Turner; Slater; Fedden; Wingrove; Latham; Friend; Hewitt; Pendlebury; and other individuals

Certificates issued to Theodosia Catherine Merry, including:

• St George's Hospital First Class Certificate (of probationary nurse training), Dec 1912
• St George's certificate of one year's service as staff nurse, 8 Oct 1913
• General Nursing Council certificate of admission to the register, 16 Mar 1923
• National Health Society health visitor's certificate (with Ministry of Health seal on the reverse), 1924-1926
• certificate of competency for the office of sanitary inspector (Sanitary Inspectors Examination Board), 1 Jul 1924

Two amended copies of a printed 'Address presented to Her Royal Highness Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll) on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the South London Hospital for Women: July 1st, 1913'

Booklets and magazines, including:

• Consumption and other Forms of Tuberculous Disease and of Typhoid Fever (St John Ambulance Association), 1913
• Genito-Urinary Nursing by H. G. Cummine, 1972
• Hints to Mothers on the Treatment of their Children, fifteenth edition, nd [c.1930s-1940s? – published to promote Steedman's Powders, which contained mercury]
• Nursing Mirror and Midwives' Journal, 20 Aug 1949
• The Nursing Process by Jean Crow, 1977 [ownership inscription: 'Karlene Chambers']
• The "Verisan" Home Medical Guide and Year Book, 1940 [with accompanying wrapper with post-it notes affixed: 'for Julia from Jane S.' and 'Jane […] All my love, Dad']

Papers refer to James; Ogle; Wingrove; Back; Turner; Longhurst; Fedden; and other individuals

Loose exam papers dating from earlier periods than those in the library ring binders, including 20 General Nursing Council state papers (various subjects, 1937-1949), two St George's hospital papers (1939), one from the Surrey Education Committee (Home Nursing exam, 1914), and one from an unnamed institution ('Junior Nurses' Examination', 1949)

Programmes for events at the South London Hospital for Women, including the opening of the hospital (4 Jul 1916) and annual garden fêtes/parties for the years 1932-1937, 1942, and 1948. The covers of the fête programmes feature photographs of royals and celebrities who opened them, including the Viscountess Tiverton, the Ranee of Sarawak [Margaret Brook], Margaret Bannerman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, the Princess of Berar, the Western Brothers, and Joyce Grenfell.

Also includes a list of prize draw results (nd, but possibly relating to one of the fêtes).

Two copies of a donation and subscription form for the South London Hospital for Women

Papers refer to Barwell; Ogle; Cubitt; Pendlebury; Back; and other individuals

Papers refer to Rolleston; Collier; Ogle; Hill; Pendlebury; and other individuals

Other memorabilia retained by Clara Jeynes, including:

• St George's Hospital rules/regulations for probationer nurses (including instructions for laundry), c.1919-1920s
• St George's Hospital Year Book [with pages for signatures etc. left blank], c.1921
• examination papers from St George's Hospital (invalid cooking) and Central Midwives Board, 1923-1924
• press cutting from Nursing Mirror and Midwives Journal (list of successful candidates in CMB exam), 17 May 1924
• press cuttings about sale of St George's Hyde Park Corner site back to Grosvenor Estate, 1979-1982
• copy of a 1916 photograph of Clara Jeynes at Littleton Street Day Nursery, Walsall, annotated with details on the reverse by her niece Mary Higgs, 2002