About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0557
  • TitleAs good as new
  • SummaryCaption: "As good as new--The traditional candlelight capping ceremony of the Prospect Heights Hospital School of Nursing was featured by, of all things, a uniform. Florence Silvestri, center, a senior, of 51 Duffield St., displays the same spruce outfit worn by Anna R. Nye, right, as student of the school in 1905. B. Ruth Skinner, principal, looks on approvingly. ..."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectNurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- New York (State) -- New York ; Uniforms -- 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: Prospect Heights Hospital