About This Item


  • Call NumberHOSP_0063
  • TitleAward
  • SummaryCaption: "Award--Martha Akers, director of nursing at the Brooklyn Hospital, center, shows the certificates which will be presented by the hospital to Erasmus Hall high School for its distinctive contributions to the hospital in the preparatory eduction of such future nurses as Sara Jane Allen, left, and Janet Reeves, new nursing students. The girls have been awarded merit scholarships."
  • Date1951
  • 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: Apr. 6, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "C. E. McNamara Photos." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Hospital ; Awards -- New York (State) -- New York ; 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 Hospital: Staff & patients