Research Catalog
Estelle Winbush Banks collection.
- Title
- Estelle Winbush Banks collection.
- Author
- Banks, Estelle Winbush
- Publication
- [between 1927 and 1959?]
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Picture | Use in library | Sc Photo Estelle Winbush Banks Collection | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- 13 items (. 2 cubic ft., one box); 21 x 26 cm and smaller.
- 12 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;
- 1 magazine clipping : halftone photomechanical, black and white ;
- Summary
- Depictions of nurse Estelle Winbush Banks, and the staff and nursing students of Harlem Hospital, in Harlem, New York, mainly during the late 1920s, consisting of an undated studio portrait of Banks; a candid shot of Marion Pettiford, the Assistant Supervisor of the Visiting Nurse Centre in Harlem (1927); and a series of group portraits and views of doctors, nurses, nursing students, hospital facilities, and ambulances at Harlem Hospital (1929) that are mounted in a photo album. Also included is a group portrait showing Banks, with other nurses, taking part in an unidentified swearing-in ceremony (ca. 1950s). Banks's personal life and her career during the 1930s to the 1950s are not depicted.
- Subject
- Banks, Estelle Winbush
- Pettiford, Marion
- Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
- Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing
- African American nurses > New York (State) > New York
- African American nursing students > New York (State) > New York
- Hospitals > Medical staff > New York (State) > New York
- Physicians > New York (State) > New York
- Health facilities > New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1920-1929.
- Group portraits – 1920-1959.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1920-1959.
- Clippings – 1920-1929.
- Photograph albums – 1920-1929.
- Note
- Title based on photo caption.
- One photograph bears photographer's credit on verso. Most items bear printed captions, printed from negative, on recto. One item bears handwritten caption on verso; one item bears printed caption and handwritten notation on recto.
- Many items are mounted to photo album pages that are bound together along the spine by string tie.
- Collection contains work by Walter Donegan.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Some items may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is reqiuired for duplication.
- Biography (note)
- Estelle Winbush Banks, 1904-1982, was an African American nurse who graduated from the Harlem Hospital Nursing School (ca. 1929) and was a member of the Harlem Hospital Visiting Nurse Service.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Estelle Winbush Banks Collection
- OCLC
- 1285431574
- Author
- Banks, Estelle Winbush, collector.
- Title
- Estelle Winbush Banks collection.
- Production
- [between 1927 and 1959?]
- Type of Content
- still image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Terms Of Use
- Some items may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is reqiuired for duplication.
- Biography
- Estelle Winbush Banks, 1904-1982, was an African American nurse who graduated from the Harlem Hospital Nursing School (ca. 1929) and was a member of the Harlem Hospital Visiting Nurse Service.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Donagan, Walter, photographer.New York (N.Y.). Department of Health, sponsoring body.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Estelle Winbush Banks Collection