About This Item

  • TitleMedicine's horse and buggy era
  • Call NumberHOSP_0439
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaptions: "Medicine's horse and buggy era--This horse and wagon was the first ambulance used by Long Island College Hospital and Medical School, now the State University College of Medicine." "First ambulance used by Long Island College Hospital, which, with its medical school, has been serving Brooklyn for 80 years." The location is not indicated, but it is, presumably, Cobble Hill, as Long Island College Hospital was located at the intersection of Hicks Street and Amity Street.. The image is not dated.
  • Date[1874?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteRetouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectLong Island College Hospital ; Ambulances -- New York (State) -- New York ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cobble Hill (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.