Carolyn “Corky” Marlowe (left) and Doris Alexander dressed in scrubs. Both were a part of the Samaritan Medical Center Ambulatory Surgical Unit. 2010. Watertown, NY. Courtesy of Carolyn Marlowe. Click here for a North Country at Work story about how nursing has changed over the years. You can listen to Corky Marlowe talking about life […]
America’s first trained nurse, Linda Richards (1841-1930), was born Melinda Ann Judson Richards, the daughter of an itinerant preacher. The family moved from Potsdam to Wisconsin and eventually to Vermont when Linda was very young. In 1873, she received her diploma from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury, Massachusetts, becoming the […]
Patients being taught to cane and weave rush chairs at the State Hospital in Ogdensburg, which was a very progressive hospital in terms of rehabilitative programs for their patients. Chair caning was one of those activities. Ogdensburg, 1900-1910.
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 […]
Office of Dr. Austin, dentist. Man in chair is Wesley Stoer. Note potbelly stove in room adjacent to treatment room. Circa 1910. Rensselaer Falls, NY.
Wesley Stoer in chair of Dr. Austin, a dentist of Rensselaer Falls. Circa 1910. Rensselaer Falls, NY.
Doctor Stuart Nelson sitting at his desk in his office on Main Street in Old Forge. Doctor Nelson was an area doctor who delivered over 500 babies. Circa 1930s. Old Forge, NY. Developed by Fynmore Photos in Boonville, NY.
Dr. Cole, a homeopathic practitioner, and an unidentified man, pose in front of Coles Drug Store on Green Street. His family lived on the second floor of the building. Note boards used as crosswalks on the muddy street. Circa 1890-1900. De Kalb Junction, NY.
Exterior of the A. Barton Hepburn Hospital and nursing school. Ogdensburg, NY. Circa 1920s. Check out our story on what it was like to be a Hepburn nursing student in the 1940s here.
Ms. Bergeron and Helen Looby, nurses of Hepburn Hospital, outside of their nursing school. 1930s. Ogdensburg, NY. Check out our story on what it was like to be a Hepburn nursing student in the 1940s here.
