Title: | St. John's Hospital |
Description: | Inscription: "St. John's Hospital, founded [in 1852] by the Church Charity Foundation of the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Long Island, is now a modern, 285-bed hospital that trains 110 nursing students, cares for 100 aged and blind people [and] treats more than 30,000 out-patients and 10,000 in-patients per year. ..." Image shows a horse-drawn ambulance with a driver and two men, one of whom is identified on the recto as Dr. Corbett, standing behind the vehicle. |
Date: | 1852 |
Location: | Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Date inscribed on verso: 1852. Title from inscription on verso. |
Collection: | Hospitals [4]
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Subject: |
Ambulances [5] Horse-drawn vehicles [6] Hospitals [7] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
ID: | HOSP 0667 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/44396b62d26bfe8e355de635e827f9c1&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Bedford-Stuyvesant+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Hospitals
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Ambulances
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Horse-drawn vehicles
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Hospitals