JEWISH HOSPITAL – School of Nursing – CLASS OF 1928
Photograph of the graduating class of nurses at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio – Class of 1928. (Photographer: W. Carson).
Original graduation photograph of the 27 nurses who completed their medical studies. Printed on thick photographic paper. Names of the nurses pictured: Erna Joseph, Lucille Sheffield Freckman, Elizabeth Evelyn Fink, Corda Hull, Mary Katherine Burton, Dorothy Rich, Ann Marie Lantz, Ruby Alice Ritchie, Marie Gottwalles, Helen M. Moorhead, Margaret Theresse Gehle, Mabel Barbour, Charlotte B. O’Neal, Evelyn Segal, Hilda Rosenthal, Ruth Headley, Mary McMahan, Edith E. Garth, Virginia Louise Powell, Elizabeth M. Osborne, Beatrice Evelyn Nichols, Edythe Alzina Earhart, Mayme E. Hudson, Hariette Matthew Farquer, Mary A. Westendorf, Catherine E. Remy, and Ruth Leota Branch.
The Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the first Jewish hospital established in the United States. Originally named “The Jewish Hospital, ” it was founded in 1850 in response to a cholera outbreak, with the goal of treating the Jewish population in Cincinnati affected by the epidemic. It was also established as a Jewish alternative to other hospitals, where Jewish patients were often pressured by Christian missionaries to convert on their deathbeds, and to provide kosher food solutions for observant Jews. On March 30, 1890, the Jewish Hospital dedicated a new location on Burnet Avenue, near the Jewish community in Mount Auburn. It became the first anchor of what would later be known as the “Pill Hill” area, as additional hospitals were later built nearby.
43×36 cm. Light stains at the margins. Good condition.
