14 Vintage Nurse Photos | Free Download
Here’s a small collection of free vintage images featuring real Nurses, mostly from World War I era! These are curated from various public domain resources, lightly edited, and are available for personal or commercial use as they are out of copyright in the United States. If you’re from outside the US, you may have different restrictions.
To download these images, click on the image to open it to full size and then save to your computer or device.
These are fairly high quality images but because of being compressed when they’re uploaded, they’re slightly lower than 300 DPI. If you’d like the original high quality images, I have a bundle of these images for sale at my shop.
Box O’ Links
- Download a high quality bundle of these images at my Shop
- Sign up for my newsletter to get more freebies like these!
Nurse in hospital
This photo was taken in 1922.
World War I recruiting poster
This poster is from 1917 or 1918.
Naval Hospital nurses
This photo was taken between 1909-1923. Check out those hats!
Nurses on break
This photo was taken between 1910-1915.
Cuban Nurses (1917)
This photo is from 1917 and features a group of Cuban Red Cross nurses in a hospital unit in France.
Nurses on a London train
This photo is from 1914-1915 and shows a group of British nurses getting on a train in London, England.
American nurse in Paris (WWI)
This photo was taken between 1914-1915 and shows an American nurse with a patient in Paris during World War I.
Nurses at lunch
This photo was taken between 1915-1920 and shows nurses at a training camp in Vassar.
Nurses in lab
This photo was taken between 1915-1920 and shows nurses training in a laboratory in Vassar.
Four nurses with four babies
This photo was taken between 1916-1919.
Nurses with babies (1920s)
This photo was taken between 1915-1923 and features two nurses holding a baby each, with another baby in a high chair between them.
Nurses with babies
This photo was taken between 1916-1919.
Nurse with two babies
This photo was taken between 1916-1919.
Nurses with newborn babies
This photo was taken between 1916-1919.
I hope you enjoyed these images! If you use them in a collage or junk journal spread, leave a comment and let me know!
