Recruiting nurses for Vassar – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Recruiting nurses for Vassar comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Recruiting nurses for Vassar
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Most of the pictures in this group show New York City street scenes, but this one is tied to a specific effort to draw young women into nursing at Vassar, the Poughkeepsie institution whose name the title gives. The record does not state a date, and the title comes from caption cards that the Bain News Service wrote, so the exact setting and purpose remain uncertain. The Bain News Service was a New York photo agency that sold pictures to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s. Its recruitment images often reflect the demand for trained nurses during and after the First World War, when hospitals and the military competed for graduates.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,866 × 3,321 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27860 |
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