About This Item

  • TitleNew vital statistic
  • Call NumberHOSP_0420
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Supervisor of Obstetrics Ada Williams [a nurse] receiving birth certificate from clerk [Grace Sharp] in her office next door to one of the hospital's five delivery rooms. On the reverse side of the certificate are the footprints of the infant and the fingerprint of the right index finger of the mother. In this instance, the infant was born about five minutes before the scene was photographed."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Apr. 30, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectKings County Hospital (Kings County, N.Y.) ; Birth certificates -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.