About This Item


  • TitleMiss Waters and Pepito
  • Call NumberBSCH_0076
  • Cite AsBoris Schleifer photograph Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryExterior view of Miss Waters, a day supervisor, standing in a corridor between buildings at Kingston Avenue Hospital. Image includes a parakeet, named Pepito, sitting on her shoulder. The image is not dated, but the year is known to be 1926.
  • Date[1926]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteTitle from inscription on recto.
  • CreatorSchleifer, Boris
  • SubjectHospitals -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East Flatbush (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.