Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 467

Price Realized: $ 812
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WOMEN'S HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Group of photographs of the Lincoln School for Nurses. 13 photographs, most about 6 x 8 inches, one 8 x 10 inches; minor wear, mount remnants on verso, one captioned in pencil on verso. Bronx, NY, circa 1920s-1945
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The Lincoln School for Nurses was founded in 1898 as the city's first nursing school for Black women. It operated in the venerable Home for the Colored Aged / Colored Home and Hospital / Lincoln Hospital and Home, which relocated to the South Bronx neighborhood in 1899. Lincoln Hospital moved to its current location in the Bronx in 1976. Most of these photographs show the nurses doing their work: in the operating room, attending to patients in large open wards for adults and children, meeting pediatric patients in a crowded office, and observing physicians. Two are group photographs of nursing school classes posed outdoors, one of them (by photographer Woodard of New York) dated 1945 in the negative.

Three of these photos are captioned on verso ("Lincoln Hospital, N.Y. City" or "Old Lincoln Medical Center" in a later hand), and one of the exterior views clearly shows signage for the Lincoln Hospital & Home. The New York Public Library has a collection of 36 photos of the school digitized on their website. None duplicate the photographs offered here, but a few are similar enough to positively identify the school, such as two similar views of surgery in progress in the operating room.