About This Item

  • TitleBrooklyn Hospital
  • Call NumberHOSP_0054
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "A highlight in the indoctrination program conducted for new student nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital last week was the measuring of students for their set of blue and white striped uniforms. Miss Martha Akers, R.N., Director of Nurses (extreme right), is shown fitting Miss Mildred Cassidy of 1811 E. 37th St., while Miss Carol Anne Rhodes (left) of Herkimer, N. Y., admires the uniform she will soon wear as a pre-clinical student."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteRetouched. Stamped on verso: date: Mar. 10, 1950; "C. E. McNamara Photos." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E. [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Hospital ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing schools -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- 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.