Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Cabinet Cards

I'm back! Great vacation!

 Baby in a perambulator, Sofia, Bulgaria
  
 Cowboy and Indians, Rockville, Indiana
  
 Fashionable woman, San Francisco, 1879
  
 Gentleman with a bass, Cornwall, England, 1870-1900
  
 Group picture. Including Amalia Grönberg, sitting Fanny Sundstrom and Helmi Snellman
  
 Henry Hay Jacobs and wife Eugenia, Australia, 1888-89
  
 Hilding and Valborg Meinander, with children Nils, Maja and Marjut
  
 Ola and Gertie Cogswell, Stanton, Michigan
  
 Two young girls, Christchurch, New Zealand
  
Woman and girl, Christchurch, New Zealand

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Nurse Training

More photos from this group by Fritz Henle. Previous set here.

A student nurse, acting as physical therapist, points to the picture book, 
encouraging a child to learn to use his crutches
  
 A torpedoed sailor receives burn treatment from a doctor, 
with student nurse Susan Petty in attendance
[I think the torpedoed sailor is in love with Susan Petty :)]
  
 After a day of hard work and study, Susan Petty and her 
fellow student nurses enjoy a swim and frolic in the pool
  
 An important phase of every nurse's training is assisting at operations. In this 
emergency tracheotomy, the doctor is inserting a tube into the trachea.
  
 First-year students practice various sick-room techniques on 
one another. They will soon be ready for work in the wards.
  
 Highlighting a day of intensive training, mail from home 
brings a smile to this young student nurse's face
  
 In a hospital's formula kitchen, student nurses 
prepare dozens of bottles for dozens of babies
  
 In a hospital's formulae kitchen, student nurses 
prepare dozens of bottles for dozens of babies
  
 A nurse assists the doctor, who is inserting a needle 
in a patient's arm prior to a blood transfusion
  
Immediately following a blood transfusion the nurse 
must whirl the container to prevent coagulation

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Vintage Finland

Here's another bunch of photos taken from this Flickr set.

 Ships at the harbor of the market square, Helsinki, ca. 1906
  
 Snapshot in Helsinki, April 1891
  
 Snapshot in Helsinki, April 1891
  
 Snapshot in Helsinki, April 1891
  
 Snapshot in Helsinki, North Esplanade, April 1891
 
 South Harbor in Helsinki, 1914
  
 Stude and Kavaleff in Helsinki Zoo, May 1898
  
 The steam ship Nyländska Skärgården outside the South harbor in Helsinki, ca. 1900
  
 The Swedish Theater in Helsinki, ca. 1906
  
Women and girls in Helsinki, 1906