History in Pictures

Martin Couney’s Baby Incubators, early 20th century (The Light of Luna Park)

Althea’s NYC (The Light of Luna Park)

Bellevue School of Nursing, 1920s (The Light of Luna Park)

ALA Library War Service (The War Librarian)

Dr. Martin Couney’s Baby Incubators
(1904, Aug 07). Coney Island Incubator. The Brooklyn Citizen, p. 4
Image: Wikimedia Commons
(1924, Jul 15). Incubator Popular Attraction at Luna. The Brooklyn Standard Union, p. 9
(1926, Aug 15). ‘Incubator Man’ Has Saved 2750 Lives.” The Bradenton Herald Sunday Magazine, p. 2
(1920, Aug 22). At Luna Park. The Brooklyn Standard Union, p. 26
Image: Wikimedia Commons
(1917, Aug 14). The Infant Incubators at Luna Park. Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette, p. 3
(1906, Aug 26). Incubator Baby in a Pint Cup. The Baltimore Sun, p. 7
(1903, Sep 04). Tiny Baby at the Luna Park Incubator. The Brooklyn Standard Union, p. 8

Althea’s NYC
Public domain images from:
New York Public Library Digital Collections

Bellevue School of Nursing
Public domain images from:
Board of Managers. (1924). Bellevue Hospital: Training School for Nurses, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st Annual Reports.
Board of Managers. (1928). Bellevue Hospital: Training School for Nurses, 55th Annual Report/Schools of Nursing of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, 3rd Annual Report.

ALA Library War Service
(1919). ALA dispatch office, 31 West 15th Street, New York City [Photograph]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.
(n.d.). A formal portrait of a hospital librarian in uniform [Photograph]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ALA Archives.
(n.d.). Four hospital librarians in uniform [Photograph]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ALA Archives.
(1918). Bedside service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Meade, Maryland [Postcard]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.
Falls, C.B. (1918). Bookplate of War Service Library. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
(1918). Bedside service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas [Postcard]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.
(1918). Books in a hut [Photograph]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.
(1918). 2,500,000 books reached France [Photograph]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.
(1918). Bedside service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Debarkation Hospital No. 5, New York City [Postcard]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.
(1918). Beside service of the American Library Association in the Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Mass. [Postcard]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.
(1918). Hospital Library Service of the American Library Association [Postcard]. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives.