About This Item


  • Call NumberHOSP_0202
  • TitleHospital CD drill
  • SummaryCaption: "Hospital CD drill--Hospital workers help patients to cover in Cumberland Hospital in mock drill that simulated actual atomic attack. Left foreground, Marguerite Sandoval, 24, is cared for by Rose A. Loffredo, medical social worker and, right, Mary Albalbero, 14, is assisted by Isabel Pope, volunteer worker. In rear, student nurse Myrtle Buhler and H. Furstenberg, lay superintendent of hospital, cover bedridden patients with blankets to protect them from radiation."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: date: Feb. 20, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectEmergency drills -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- New York (State) -- New York ; Volunteer workers in hospitals -- 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: Cumberland St. Hospital