These two black and white photographs show Emily Morgan, (1878-1960). The first image is Emily's 1908 graduation from the Ensworth Nurses Training School in St. Joseph, Missouri. The second photograph shows Emily dressed in a fur parka and wearing mukluks. A native of Leon, Kansas, and a World War I and II nurse, she was assigned in 1923 to work as a public nurse in Nome, Alaska. When the town was stricken, in 1925, with a diphtheria epidemic, she risked her life by walking in sub zero weather to inoculate the townspeople. The epidemic eventually subsided, and Emily returned to Kansas to resume her career as a Red Cross nurse. Over the years she returned to Alaska to care for the sick but always came home to Kansas. In May of 1966, "The Angel of the Yukon" as she was called by The Anchorage Times, passed away at the age of eighty-two in El Dorado, Kansas.
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