About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0160
  • TitleLives after record temporature
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Feb. 15, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Caption: "Lives after record temperature--Sophie Sapala, 21-year-old student nurse, grins at Nurse Olga Holden as she recovers from a violent flare-up of undulant fever in Bushwick Hospital. the bag contains vials that once held precious streptomycin."
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nurses -- 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: Bushwick Hospital