Psychiatric Center Ward in the Ogdensburg Hospital; pictured are empty and occupied beds, the Ward matron, and several nurses. Note the difference in the matron’s uniform (dark and all in one piece) and the other nurses (light and with a pinafore over a dress). The hospital had a nurses’ training school. Circa 1900. Ogdensburg.

Check out our story on what it was like to be an Ogdensburg nursing student in the 1940s here.