Guide to the Toby Jensky Photograph Collection, circa 1937-1938

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Guide to the Toby Jensky Photograph Collection, circa 1937-1938

circa 1937-1938

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/alba_photo_055/alba_photo_055.html

Toby Jensky (1911-1995) was a nurse with the American Medical Bureau of the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy in Spain (AMB) during the Spanish Civil War. The images in this collection were collected by Jensky in the course of her work as a nurse in Spain. The collection includes photographs of AMB medical personnel at work and leisure, including Jensky, Sara Goldblatt, Fredericka Martin, and Anne Taft. There are also images of Dr. Odio D. Perez and Jensky’s future husband, Jason Patrick (Pat) Gurney, soldiers at the front relaxing and engaged in non-combat activities, Spanish children, campesinos, civilians, medical personnel and women washing clothes.

0.25 linear feet

eng, Latn

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6331034

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Related Entities

There are 16 Entities related to this resource.

Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x433g7 (corporateBody)

Perez, Odio D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s412c (person)

Goldblatt, Sarah

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw2hp9 (person)

Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f55v52 (corporateBody)

Gurney, Jason

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h72phn (person)

Taft, Anne, 1912-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nk4bhz (person)

Spain. Ejercito Popular de la Republica. Abraham Lincoln Battalion.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m7059x (corporateBody)

North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61v9kdk (corporateBody)

Martin, Fredericka Imogene, 1905-1992

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dj6bvp (person)

Fredericka (Freddie) Imogene Martin (1905-1992) was a writer, historian, and nurse who served as a chief nurse and medical administrator during the Spanish Civil War. Martin was born in Cooperstown, New York on June 2, 1905. Her father died in an accident before her birth and when she was five her mother remarried. They moved to Oneonta, New York where Martin -- a spirited child by her own account -- grew up in a warm and indulgent family. Following high school, she lived and worked with the St....

Jensky, Toby, 1911-1995.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm0dsp (person)

Toby Jensky was a nurse during the Spanish Civil War. She sailed for Spain on April 14, 1937, with Dr. Edward Barsky’s Fourth Medical Unit. Jensky and Barsky had been colleagues at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. She met future husband Pat Gurney while tending his wounds. After serving in Spain, Jensky nursed at Beth Israel in New York City until her retirement. She assisted Fredericka Martin in gathering primary sources documenting the history of the American Medical Bureau of the North ...

Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tx746k (corporateBody)

Taft, Anne

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t311qh (person)

Gurney, Jason

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hp163k (person)

Goldblatt, Sana.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69b44sj (person)

Perez, Odio D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ts201d (person)

Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6716hd6 (corporateBody)