May Petras's Lenox Hill School of Nursing yearbook
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Abstract
The collection includes nursing student May Petras's 1945 graduation yearbook from Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing in New York City and a gelatin silver photograph of sculptor Walter Russell (1871-1963). The 1943 photo is inscribed by Russell to Petras, and was taken in Russell's studio in the Carnegie Hall apartments, showing him working on a large bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Biographical/Historical Note
May Petras was born in Manhattan in 1923. She graduated from Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing in New York City in 1945. She worked for a time after graduating for the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital before joining the Navy Nurse Corps. (Information provided via email by the donor.)
Scope and Contents
The collection includes two items:
1) A copy of Achelis, the Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing yearbook, for the year 1945. This was May Petras's copy, and includes an image of her. Several of her fellow graduates inscribed messages to her in the book.
2) A toned gelatin silver photograph of sculptor Walter Russell (1871-1963). The photo is inscribed with regards by Russell to Petras, and dated 30 July 1943. A note on the reverse of the photograph indicates that Russell was a patient of Petras. The photograph was taken in Russell's studio in the Carnegie Hall apartments (the central portion of which was later occupied by Editta Sherman, according to N-YHS curator Marilyn Kushner); he is pictured working on a large bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Preferred Citation Note
This collection should be cited as the May Petras's Lenox Hill School of Nursing Yearbook, PR 343, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, The New-York Historical Society.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note
Gift of Marian Austin, May Petras's daughter, in September 2017.
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The collection was processed by archivist Larry Weimer in September 2017.
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