The trove of photos donated to the JMM by the Baltimore Jewish Times is enormous. For the past several months, archives volunteer extraordinaire Marvin Specter has been scanning the images and making them viewable in our collections database, giving access to the images to researchers everywhere -including the JMM staff.
Marvin recently brought me a large folder of photos of Sinai Hospital—images I had not known about while preparing our Beyond Chicken Soup exhibition. I hope you will enjoy this small selection from the folder as much as I did. And please let us know if you are able to name any of the identified people shown in these photos! Email kfalk@jewishmuseummd.org.
Doctors and nurses who covered heads and faces, gloved their hands, draped pristine linens on their patients, and tossed used instruments into sterilized enameled basins marked the up-to-date- surgical procedures at the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum, c. 1920. Gift of the Baltimore Jewish Times, 2012.054.351.017.This photo by Craig Terkowitz for the Baltimore Jewish Times, identified in the collection only as “generic hospital shot,” was probably taken in the early 1990s. It makes a nice contrast with the one above. Gift of the Baltimore Jewish Times, 2012.054.351.021.This long line of Cadillac ambulances ferried patients from Sinai Hospital on Monument Street to the newly built hospital on Belvedere Avenue in 1959. Gift of the Baltimore Jewish Times, 2012.054.351.015.This photo describes the nurses’ station as the “headquarters” of the emergency room at Sinai Hospital in 1996. L-R, Dr. Fred Sunness and Dr. Tariq Khan. J. Hwang, photographer. Gift of the Baltimore Jewish Times, 2012.054.351.024.Community volunteers have long filled many important roles in the work of hospitals. Here, Joshua Reiter entertains a patient in Sinai’s pediatric ward on “Straight from the Heart Day,” 1997. Kyle Bergner, photographer. Gift of the Baltimore Jewish Times, 2012.054.351.30.Rose Birenbaum and David Weinstock stand in line at Sinai’s kosher café, new when this photo was taken in 1994. Craig Terkowitz, photographer. Gift of the Baltimore Jewish Times, 2012.054.351.056.While on Monument Street, Sinai Hospital’s gift shop was tucked under the stairs and staffed by white uniformed volunteers. Photo c. 1940, Sussman-Ochs Studio. Courtesy of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, CP 14.2015.002.Much enlarged in its suburban location, the gift shop was still staffed by the women of the Sinai Ladies Auxiliary, shown here in 1998. L-R: Pamela Platt, Beverly Epstein, Linda Smith, Elaine Lowen, Ann Robinson, and Debbie Effron. Kyle Bergner, photographer. Gift of the Baltimore Jewish Times, 2012.054.351.059.
A blog post by Curator Karen Falk. To read more posts from Karen click HERE. This post has also been published on the Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America website.