Album, Photograph

Name/Title

Album, Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2025.41.34

Description

Photograph album kept by Alice Lord [later Pelkey], who worked as a nurse at the New York State Hospital for Incipient Tuberculosis, Will Rogers Hospital, and other sanatoria. Album contains photographs of Alice and her family in Malone, as well as photographs of her work as a nurse in locations as far as India. Photographs also include patients, nurses, doctors, and facilities at sanatoria. Photographs are not dated, but likely date from the 1920s to 1940s. Has blue leatherette cover with embossed floral designs including a camera and tripod. Album is labeled "Photographs" in gold ink at center of cover. See 2025.41.34.1 - 2025.41.34.88 for photographs in the album.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Pelkey, Alice Lord

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1920 - circa 1950

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Album, Photograph

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Album

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Memorabilia

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Sanatoriums, Hospitals, Families, Patients, Tuberculosis, Nurses, Doctors

Dimensions

Height

11-1/2 in

Width

15-1/4 in