About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0476
  • TitleLong Island College Hospital
  • SummaryCaption: "They had a tournament in the back yard at the Long Island College Hospital in which 'seeded players' took part, but it was not tennis. Medicos and nurses hurled watermelon seeds at Nurse Margaret Manchinni, who paid a price for not being able to eat her share of a watermelon. The marksmen were Nurses Joan Bendixsen, Helen Kryskiewicz, Marilyn Torns, Susie DeStefano, and Drs. Harold Conrad, John Hebb, and Richard Call.
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Aug. 7, 1948. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Physicians -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cobble Hill (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: II