About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0171
  • TitleStudy new gadgets
  • SummaryCaption: "Study new gadgets: Members of the nursing staff check fixtures on the new operating table, the latest type, presented to the Caledonian Hospital of Brooklyn by the Women's Society. The new $1,500 table is the most recent gift of the Women's Society which has presented a total of $75,000 to the hospital since it was chartered 40 years ago as the only voluntary hospital in the United States organized and sponsored by a group of Scottish-American[s]. The Women's Society is sponsoring a benefit bridge in the Nurses'Residence, Wednesday, February 21. Left to right - Eugina Powers, Alina Perticari, Terry O'Hara, Mary Geraci. From Caledonian Hospital of Brooklyn, 132 Parkside Avenue."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Feb.22, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle; Photographed by Publicity Photographers. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers [photographer]
  • SubjectNurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Operating rooms -- 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