About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0179
  • TitlePlanning open house
  • SummaryCaption: "Planning open house--Mrs. John McCamley, left, president of the Women's Society of the Caledonian Hospital, and Mrs. John Nicol, financial secretary, are shown with Mindo Buchanan, a Scottish piper. The society is sponsoring the first of a series of open house Sundays and teas this afternoon in the Nurses' Residence as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the chartering of the hospital, the only voluntary hospital in the United States organized and sponsored by the group of Scottish-Americans."
  • Date1951
  • 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: Feb. 4, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle; Photographed by Publicity Photographers. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBagpipers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Volunteer hospital workers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Hospitals: Caledonian Hospital: Staff: I