Weekend, February 2-5, 2024 – HE SCHETLIN STORY CONTINUES AND LIVES ON
FROM THE ARCHIVES
FRIDAY & WEEKEND, FEBRUARY 2-5, 2024
ISSUE # 1175
A RECOLLECTION FROM THE
RIHS’s 31st Issue
Included in this Issue:
The Schetlin Story Conclusion Part IV
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A Recollection of Family Life on Balckwell’s/ Welfare Island
Eleanor Schetlin 2002 PART IV
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The Florence Nightingale Pledge
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Eleanor Schetlin at the Central Nurses Residence
1956-1963
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Eleanor, The Last Schetlin on the Island, Leaves the Island
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Eleanor and the Roosevelt Island Historical Society
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Background Report
Leisure time at the lighthouse
Reading Eleanor’s story for the first time in years reminds me of the importance of paper archives and photographs. There is something about looking thru notebooks, binders, scrapbooks that brings the story to life.
Eleanor visited our island again in 2006. We held a reunion at the newly opened Octagon apartments. Bruce Becker, the developer was a wonderful host to the women who studied and worked in the building. I have photos of that event but they are in the RIHS office in the Octagon.
I hope you have enjoyed this series. Please send me your comments.
Judith Berdy
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917-744-3721
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Background Report
I look up at my bookshelf and want to acknowledge some of the reference materials and books I have used to write the 30 FROM OUR ARCHIVES articles:
NEW YORK RISES – EUGENE DE SELIGNAC NYC Municipal Archives
ARTHUR TRESS FANTASTIC VOYAGES Arthur Tress
SERT- JOSE LUIS SERT J.P. Rovera
NEW YORK 1960 Robert A.M. Stern
AMERICAN NOTES Charles Dickens
I KNEW THEM IN PRISON Mary Belle Harris
MYSTERIOUS MANSIONS Mary Dickerson Donahey
STONE AND STEEL Bascove
PITIGLIANI Letitzia Pitigliani
This list is only published books. Our archives have over 200 binders of individual subjects from Almshouses to Zoolander. Feel free to contact us for any information you need. If we don’t have it, we can point you in the right direction to find it.
Judith Berdy
CREDITS
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Dottie Jeffries
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