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[C.1910s Photograph of New York City's "Flower Hospital" Ambulance at the Homeopathic Hospital's Archway Entrance]
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[Np, c.1910s]. Silver process photograph. 6¾ x 9 inches. Pencil annotations on verso. Creasing to image; two small chips at top right edge; very good.
New York City's Flower Hospital was the first location where homeopathic medicine gained recognition by the federal government. It was established in 1889 as the Flower Free Surgical Hospital by New York Medical College which taught homeopathic medicine. It was named after then Congressman Roswell P. Flower (1835-1899), later Governor of New York, who helped fund it.
After 1908, the hospital was re-named New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital. Around this time, the hospital began an automobile ambulance service. In the photograph, such an ambulance-with its driver and clinical attendant-can be seen at the hospital's main, archway entrance near York Avenue and 63rd Street in Manhattan.
During the First World War, the Flower Hospital asked the authority of the Red Cross to organize an Army Base Hospital. At first, the U.S. Army was reluctant to accept homeopathic physicians and medicine. Due to the exigencies of the war and after convincing the Army of their abilities, Hospital Unit "N" was established at the Flower Hospital. This unit later became the United States General Hospital No. 5 at Fort Ontario, New York.
Refs. Dearborn, ed., American Homeopathy in the World War, ([Chicago], 1923), p30ff. Minutes of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York, Financial and Franchise Matters, January 1 to March 31, 1910, p227-229.
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To the Members of the Union League. Philadelphia, October 13, 1875. [caption title]
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1905 Photograph of women attending the National Electric Light Association Convention in Colorado Springs
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Ca. 1870s stereoview of Paul Smith's Hotel, Adirondack resort on Lower St. Regis Lake, New York
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1947 Brooklyn photograph of the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues
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Miniature Loan Collection. Newport, R.I. June 3-6, 1890. [cover title]
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Ca. 1890s Photograph of two women with a bicycle standing in front of a dress making parlor
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Crystal Park Auto Trip. Colorado Springs and Manitou
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[Ca. 1890s photograph of the Most Reverend John Williams, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, in His Library]
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Ca. 1936 photograph of the "City of New Orleans" aircraft of the Chicago and Southern Air Lines
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The Young Sailor; or The Sea-Life of Tom Bowline
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