About This Item


  • Call NumberHOSP_0174
  • TitleThey help heal
  • SummaryCaption: "They help heal with hand and heart. Two student nurses from the School of Practical Nursing of Caledonian Hospital (left to right), Miss Albina Hudecek of Buffalo and Mrs. Bertha Wetzler of Brooklyn, with one of the child patients [sitting in a wheelchair] at the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Sep[t] 13, 1950; Photographed by Publicity Photographers. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wheelchairs -- 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