Rutherford County Health Dept., Murfreesboro, TN 2020

Lashon Miller, center, stands with nursing staff in front of the Rutherford County Health Department in downtown Murfreesboro. “We were tasked with providing the bulk of testing, and then vaccinations for our County, until it became more widely available later on,” says Miller. “Our staff started out very, very small, with about 6 of our nurses, including myself. We eventually hired contract nurses to help us as our operations grew beyond what we could handle on our own. At that point we were working with a staff of around 12-15 nurses depending on some quitting and new ones getting hired.”

Photo by Bill Steber
Carbon print from wet plate collodion tintype