A photograph of Florence Nightingale in her later years, the founder of modern nursing, as well as a celebrated English social reformer and statistician. She was given the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" because of her habit of making nursing rounds at night during the Crimean War. Lived between May 1820–August 1910.

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A photograph of Florence Nightingale in her later years, the founder of modern nursing, as well as a celebrated English social reformer and statistician. She was given the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" because of her habit of making nursing rounds at night during the Crimean War. Lived between May 1820–August 1910.

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License: Licensed
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