About This Item


  • TitleMercy is their business
  • Call NumberHOSP_0093
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Mercy is their busisness--Seventeen student nurses who completed their apprenticeships are capped at ceremonies in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital by Emma Heller, director of nurses training school, who here does the honors for Ethel B. Noveck of 2435 Ocean Ave. Observer is hospital president Emil N. Boar."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: date: Aug. 26, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Jay Sharp Photos." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectJewish Hospital of Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing schools -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.