Doris Hoover and Emma Wade

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Date: May 1936; 1936-05 Material: Black and white photographs Dimension: 3.2 x 4.5 inches; 600 dpi

Creator: Pamela Hansen Identifier: aql:21198 qmp-ph-000012 qmp-ph-000012-0.tif

Description: Posing in this photo are Doris Hoover (bottom in striped suit at age 19) and her best friend Emma Wade (top). Both women worked and lived as nurse assistants at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village. Doris Hoover was born in Wicksburg, Alabama at the home of her grandmother, Lucinda Wood-Fillingim. Doris, daughter of a sharecropper, was raised in the backcountry (Red Bank/Swansea/Giddy Swamp/Perry/Pelion) of South Carolina. Doris following her sister Corina - was sent to New York, they were sent by their father to work, live, and send money home during the Great Depression. Doris was the wife of August P. Shearer and mother to Doris Shearer Griffin (Thomas), Thomas P. Shearer, and Norma Shearer Kessler (Paul). Also, before moving to north, Doris helped raise her nephew, Rufus Oscar Hoover, fireman, of Columbia, South Carolina. Her nephew Rufus, with great emotion, told the family on several occasions of the family struggle; always grateful for the money sent home to South Carolina that saved the family from starvation during the Great Depression.; [Hand written on back of photograph] Emma Wade and Doris Hoover May 1936

Title : Doris Hoover and Emma Wade

Collection : aql:13844

Creator : Pamela Hansen

Date : May 1936; 1936-05

Summary/Description : Posing in this photo are Doris Hoover (bottom in striped suit at age 19) and her best friend Emma Wade (top). Both women worked and lived as nurse assistants at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village. Doris Hoover was born in Wicksburg, Alabama at the home of her grandmother, Lucinda Wood-Fillingim. Doris, daughter of a sharecropper, was raised in the backcountry (Red Bank/Swansea/Giddy Swamp/Perry/Pelion) of South Carolina. Doris following her sister Corina - was sent to New York, they were sent by their father to work, live, and send money home during the Great Depression. Doris was the wife of August P. Shearer and mother to Doris Shearer Griffin (Thomas), Thomas P. Shearer, and Norma Shearer Kessler (Paul). Also, before moving to north, Doris helped raise her nephew, Rufus Oscar Hoover, fireman, of Columbia, South Carolina. Her nephew Rufus, with great emotion, told the family on several occasions of the family struggle; always grateful for the money sent home to South Carolina that saved the family from starvation during the Great Depression.; [Hand written on back of photograph] Emma Wade and Doris Hoover May 1936

Subject : Nurses; Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

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

Type : Digital image, photograph

Format : Black and white photographs; 3.2 x 4.5 inches; 600 dpi

Identifier : aql:21198 qmp-ph-000012 qmp-ph-000012-0.tif