Photograph of a nurse and young boy sitting outside Trinity Hospital
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photograph of a nurse and young boy sitting outside Trinity Hospital

Unidentified · ca. 1922

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A black and white photograph of a boy and a woman, sitting on the edge of a porch of a two-storied, clapboard house. The boy is wearing a dark, cattleman-style hat, a light colored jacket and dark pants. The woman is wearing a white, full-length, nursing uniform and short, white nurse’s cap. Above and behind the boy and the woman is a sign that reads [VISITING HOURS Thursday [----?] Sunday [----?]." "[----?] Hospital] is stenciled on the front door of the building. There is a wooden chair behind the two figures. There is a telephone utility pole is in the center of the image in the foreground and a tree on the right side of the photograph. The photograph has been cut and torn into an irregular ovoid shape. There are no inscriptions or marks, front or back.

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