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Practical Nurses at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: 1936 Material: Black and white photographs Dimension: 6 x 3.5 inches; 600 dpi
Creator: Pamela Hansen Identifier: aql:21187 qmp-ph-000015 qmp-ph-000015-0.tif

Description: Cornia Hoover is on the bottom left of the picture. Cornia was the oldest child of Albert Oscar and Lillie Viola Hoover of Giddy Swamp and Swansea, South Carolina. Cornia and her sister, Doris Hoover, were sent to New York to work at Creedmoor and send money home to the starving family who had many mouths to feed during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Creedmoor buildings are visible in the background of the picture.; [Hand written on back of photograph]Cornia at Creedmoor Auntie

Collection : aql:13844

Creator : Pamela Hansen

Date : 1936

Summary/Description : Cornia Hoover is on the bottom left of the picture. Cornia was the oldest child of Albert Oscar and Lillie Viola Hoover of Giddy Swamp and Swansea, South Carolina. Cornia and her sister, Doris Hoover, were sent to New York to work at Creedmoor and send money home to the starving family who had many mouths to feed during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Creedmoor buildings are visible in the background of the picture.; [Hand written on back of photograph]Cornia at Creedmoor Auntie

Subject : Nurses; Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

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Coverage : Creedmoor Psychiatric Center Queens Village (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Digital image, photograph

Format : Black and white photographs; 6 x 3.5 inches; 600 dpi

Identifier : aql:21187 qmp-ph-000015 qmp-ph-000015-0.tif

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Subject:
Nurses; Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
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