About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0566
  • TitleYoung students, oldest school
  • SummaryCaption: "Young students, oldest school--[Eight] prospective R.N.'s are receiving instructions from Anna Dennis, R.N., director of nursing at the Prospect Heights Hospital, [pointing to suspended skeleton] while E. Hampton Decker, superintendent of the hospital, looks on. The school is the oldest in New York State and the third oldest in the country."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 14, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHuman skeleton ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- New York (State) -- New York ; Skeletons [lctgm]
  • 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