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- A Place & Date Depicted South Yarra, Australia
- B Photographer Northcote, Australia
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Glass Negative - Nurse Helen (Nellie) Beckett with Boy Patient, Alfred Hospital, South Yarra, Victoria, 1904
Reg. No: MM 030285
- Summary:
- Boy being nursed at the Alfred Hospital, South Yarra, Melbourne, 1904. The nurse is Helen (Nellie) Beckett, daughter of physician Thomas Beckett, an honorary physician and radiologist at the hospital. Photograph by Thomas Beckett.
Part of a collection of glass plate negatives taken by Dr Thomas George Beckett, doctor, pioneering radiologist and amateur photographer between 1891 and 1910. The collection is primarily of Beckett's family, friends, homes, and towns and suburbs where Beckett and his family lived, including Charlton in central Victoria and Northcote & South Yarra, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. - Description Of Content:
- A nurse taking the pulse of a child. The child's bed is on a verandah.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Mrs Joan Hadden
| Discipline: | Technology |
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| Tagged with: | beds, nurses |
| Themes this item is part of: | Clothing & Textiles Collection, Medicine in Society Collection, Dr Thomas George Beckett Collection, Dr Thomas George Beckett (1859-1937) |
| Primary Classification: | MEDICINE & HEALTH |
| Secondary Classification: | Nursing |
| People Depicted: | Beckett, Nellie |
| Format: | Glass Negative: Black & White |
| Place & Date Depicted: | South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, 1904 |
| Photographer: | Dr Thomas Beckett, Northcote, Victoria, Australia, 1904 |
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