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Description
Mildred Burrage of Kennebunkport and her sister, Madeleine, taught art to soldiers at the Halloran Hospital in Staten Island, New York, during World War II.
Mildred Burrage (1890-1983) had studied art since she was a child and studied and worked as an artist in Europe and the U.S.
The hospital was built in 1942 to treat mentally disabled children, but became an Army hospital for the duration of World War II.
About This Item
- Title: Mildred Burrage, Staten Island, ca. 1944
- Creation Date: circa 1944
- Subject Date: circa 1944
- Location: NY
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 24.3 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2494, Box 31/1
- Collection: Mildred Giddings Burrage collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Artists--Maine
- Burrage, Madeleine, 1891-1976
- Burrage, Mildred G. (Mildred Giddings), 1890-1983
- Hospitals--New York
- United States. Army--Hospitals
- Women art teachers--New York
- World War, 1939-1945--Hospitals
- World War, 1939-1945--War work
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