Florence Nightingale was often called “The Lady with the Lamp” for her nighttime rounds, checking on soldiers injured on the battlefront during the Crimean War. On the left, a print of Nightingale with her lamp, by Salvatore Lascari, JUL J0035766, Smithsonian American Art Museum. A photograph of Nightingale is on the right, PG.71.26.009.02, National Museum of American History.