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Florence Nightingale Statue
Place Category: Memorial & Statue
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Description
The “Lady of the Lamp” is a cast stone statue of Florence Nightingale, known as “The founder of professional nursing,” and the mentor of Linda Richards, who was the first trained nurse in the US. Since the 19th century till these days, Nightingale inspired many nurses, and for that reason, this location of the statue was chosen, facing the Laguna Honda hospital, and symbolizes the role she still has on modern nursing.
The statue, designed by David Edstrom and dedicated on the National Hospital Day in 1939, depicts Nightingale in her nursing uniform, holding a lamp during a hospital round, visiting wounded soldiers.
A duplicate of this statue is located at Lincoln Park in Los Angeles.
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Address: 75 Laguna Honda Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94116 -
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