About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0067
  • TitleInvitation to St. Nick
  • SummaryCaption: "Invitation to St. Nick--Student nurses on the Emergency Ward pride themselves on ingenuity in decorating their section. Students Jane Harmon, left, and Lois Davin completed their six-foot tall candle while young Desi Diaz and Mildred Nielson, head nurse, look on. Desi, who was waiting for his father, asked the students to make sure that Santa bround him a 'choo-choo' on Christmas Day."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Dec. 21, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Hospital ; Nurses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nursing students -- 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: Brooklyn Hospitals: Staff & patients