Thursday, January 12, 2023 – ANSWERS TO THE PHOTOS IDENTITIES

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2023


ISSUE 884

WHAT ARE

THESE ISLAND

STRUCTURES?

HERE ARE THE ANSWERS

MATERNITY HOSPITAL AT SOUTH END ADJOINING STRECKER LABORATORY

CENTER ENTRANCE TO SMALLPOX HOSPITAL WHEN IT WAS PART OF CITY HOSPITAL

FEMALE RESIDENTS OF THE CTY HOME /ALMSHOUSE

CITY HOME BLIND WARD

CHAPEL OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD

CITY HOME MEN’S WARD

STATION WAGON ARRIVES AT QUEENSBORO BRIDGE FOR ELEVATOR TO BRIDGE

Old NYC Cancer Institute: two 2-story buildings, dating from 1924.

Cancer patients outdoors near wooden ferry office, nurse watching. Beyond river are Manhattan apartment houses.

STUDENT NURSES RELAX OUTSIDE CITY HOSPITAL 

BLACKWELL HOUSE WHEN NORTH WING WAS STILL IN PLACE

STRECKER MEMOIAL LABORATORY

PEDIATRIC PATIENTS OUTSIDE METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL

PHOTO OF THE DAY
WILL RETURN SOON.

I JUST RETURNED TODAY  FROM VACATION AND HAVE HEARD OF THE PASSING OF BARBARA LASKER. BARBARA WAS A MEMBER OF THE R.I.H.S. BOARD AND HAD GREAT INTEREST IN OUR ISLAND HISTORY. BARBARA WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HER GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR AND CHEERFUL DISPOSITION.  OUR SINCERE SYMPATHIES TO LARRY AND FAMILY.

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 Deborah Dorff

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