Type of Work: Healthcare

Nurses at station in Glens Falls Hospital in Glens Falls

Nurses at station in Glens Falls Hospital in Glens Falls

Nurses at their station in the addition to Glens Falls Hospital, Glens Falls, NY, circa 1974. Carl Atiyeh Photograph Collection, Prints Box 4 #0214, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY. Carl Atiyeh (1911-1997) grew up in Glens Falls, NY. He was the son of Nicholas and Zehia Atiyeh.  He graduated from Glens Falls […]

Jill Hewitt Johnson on work as a dental hygienist at Watertown Correctional

Jill Hewitt Johnson is 80 years old, and lives in a retirement community in Watertown. She became a dental hygienist in the North Country, worked all over the United States as a hygienist and in dental education, and spent the last seventeen years of her career at Watertown Correctional, a medium security prison with about […]

Delia Windwalker practicing healing touch in Watertown

Delia Windwalker practicing healing touch in Watertown

Delia Windwalker practicing healing touch in Watertown. October 2019. Photo by Amy Feiereisel. Delia Windwalker, 62 years old, practices what she calls pyschosensory self-care from where she lives in Great Bend, in the town of Champion. This is recent work; the majority of Windwalker’s career has been in institutional advancement of non-profit and religious organizations. […]

Herbert Savel small-town doctor Elizabethtown

Herbert Savel on being a general practitioner in Elizabethtown

Herbert Savel has been a general practitioner since he moved to Elizabethtown from Burlington in 1971. Before that, he was an oncologist, but he says general medicine keeps him on his toes. It can be unpredictable, and making lot of house calls and getting close with his patients means he can take a more holistic […]

Nurse Jean Elk in Alexandria Bay

Nurse Jean Elk in Alexandria Bay

Born in the 1920s, Jean Elk worked at a hospital based out of a house in Alexandria Bay. The Alexandria Bay Hospital later turned into an E.J. Noble hospital. Circa 1940. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of the Alexandria Township Historical Society.