Medicine's horse and buggy era

Medicine's horse and buggy era
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Title: Medicine's horse and buggy era
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Captions: "Medicine's horse and buggy era--This horse and wagon was the first ambulance used by Long Island College Hospital and Medical School, now the State University College of Medicine." "First ambulance used by Long Island College Hospital, which, with its medical school, has been serving Brooklyn for 80 years." The location is not indicated, but it is, presumably, Cobble Hill, as Long Island College Hospital was located at the intersection of Hicks Street and Amity Street.. The image is not dated.

Date: [1874?]
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Cobble Hill (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Hospitals
Subject: Long Island College Hospital.
Ambulances
Horse-drawn vehicles
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: HOSP 0439