About This Item


  • Call NumberHOSP_0483
  • TitleVisible mercy
  • SummaryCaption: "Visible mercy--Jean McCue, left, head nurse of the male medical ward, and student nurse Marie E. Kelly, look through the visible port which is one of the features of the latest type nurses' station installed at the Long Island College Hospital, where one floor of the John Osborn Polak Memorial Building, the major unit in a millon dollar expansion program, has just opened for the care of patients. The entire building is nearing completion."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Aug. 24, 1949. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLong Island College Hospital ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- 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: Long Island College: Staff: I