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  • TitleNatty nurses
  • Call NumberWORK_0606
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Natty nurses--Members of the Visiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn will be going about their duties this summer in cool, natty uniforms of pale blue and white striped seersucker, with matching caps. Here is Ellen Donnelly [holding uniform case open], assistant supervisor of the Flatbush District Center, trying on one of the new uniforms, while Constance Clayton, staff nurse of the main station, 138 South Oxford St., admires it. ..."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 8, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVisiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn ; Uniforms -- New York (State) -- New York ; Visiting 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.