A previously unknown photo of Florence Nightingale at the Embley estate has been unearthed and is on view at a museum in London (Update: the photo has since been sold). As we tend to learn in grammar school, Nightingale was famous for leading nurses who cared for patients during the Crimean War. She also started a nursing school and made contributions to public health. Her army and hospital recordkeeping skills were rewarded when she became the first woman to be elected as a "a fellow of the Statistical Society", a coveted award.
Photographs of the nurse are rare, not only because photograph technology was rudimentary in those days, but because of Ms. Nightingale's religion and her concern that 'personal fame might hinder her work in public health'.
