About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0677
  • TitleCancer control worker
  • SummaryCaption: "Cancer control worker--Sister M. Expedite, X-ray technician, adjusts the head tube of one of the X-ray machines at the cancer prevention-detection clinic of St. Mary's Hospital. The clinic reopens Saturday, after a summer recess, for its third season as one of the units sponsored by the Brooklyn Cancer Committee in its cancer control program."
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: date: Sep[t] 29, 1948; photograph by Bernard Ravitz. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorRavitz, Bernard
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nuns -- New York (State) -- New York ; X-rays -- Equipment and supplies
  • 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: St. Mary's: General