1938 Press Photo Gladys Weigman averts explosion of oxygen tank - nef14971

Gladys Weigman, a nurse in the tuberculosis ward in the Bellevue Hospital, New York City, is credited with averting a major disaster in a fire which seriously burned one patient and threw the entire ward into panic.

Photo is dated 1938.

Photo measures 6.25 x 8.25 inches.