About This Item

  • TitleSt. John's Hospital
  • Call NumberHOSP_0667
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInscription: "St. John's Hospital, founded [in 1852] by the Church Charity Foundation of the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Long Island, is now a modern, 285-bed hospital that trains 110 nursing students, cares for 100 aged and blind people [and] treats more than 30,000 out-patients and 10,000 in-patients per year. ..." Image shows a horse-drawn ambulance with a driver and two men, one of whom is identified on the recto as Dr. Corbett, standing behind the vehicle.
  • Date1852
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: 1852. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectAmbulances -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.