Emily Novak with five nurses and five other patients. She spent a year in the hospital recovering after her appendix ruptured. She is the little girl in the right front.
The nurses are in period uniform, and the patients in bed gowns and bathrobes.
These are a series of black and white photographs taken at the Traverse City State Hospital grounds when Agnes Dumbrille was a student nurse there. The first shows Agnes with a fellow student employed in duties that might have been part of nursing…