Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt / LIFE
 
 Nurses at Roosevelt Hospital,
New York City, 1937.
 
"In 1937, the executive editor of LIFE was Daniel Longwell, who gave me the assignment at Roosevelt Hospital. I am often asked if editors tell photographers exactly what to shoot. At LIFE the photographer was an individualist, and he could photograph anything he wanted to. Nobody told him anything. But Longwell had one wish about the hospital story. 'Alfred,' he said, 'you can do anything, but I don't want to see any blood.' How different from LIFE today." 
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
 
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