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Catalog Number
2020.7.4330Description
Negative, scanned to create the digital photograph shown in this record. This image shows Elizabeth Brummel (on right, Red Cross uniform) seated at a desk in Holland Hospital. A sign on the desk reads "GET VISITORS CARDS HERE".A Red Cross "gray lady", Miss Brummel was awarded the Volunteer of the Year pin by the Hospital Auxiliary. In the corresponding text Brummel was quoted, saying "The hospital does more for me than I do for it".
This image appeared in the Holland Sentinel on 6-7-1963.
History
Nena Elizabeth Brummel was born in Zeeland, MI on 4-4-1893 to Dries and Anje Brummel. From roughly 1920 to 1940 she lived in Zeeland, MI and worked as an assistant postmaster. By 1956 she was living at 195 West 27th Street and volunteering for the American Red Cross at nearby Holland Hospital.In 1974 she retired from her volunteer work at the hospital and moved into a retirement home in Grand Rapids, MI, where she passed away on 8-14-1993 at the age of 100.
The Holland Sentinel got its start in July of 1896 as the Holland Daily Sentinel. They were located on the 2nd floor of the McBride Building, on the southwest corner of River Ave and West 8th (Reader's World today). The founder was Rev. Nellis E. Klock (1831-1911).
Rev. Klock moved his newspaper ca. 1898 to 190 East 8th Street (1897-1898 Hollan city directory). Still known as the Holland Daily Sentinel it would remain at this location through 1905. Roland Eisley (1869-1940) became the newspaper's editor ca. 1899. By 1906 Eisley had moved the newspaper to 21 East 8th Street (1906 city directory). He continued to operate the newspaper through 1908.
By 1910 the newspaper was located at 179 River Ave. and Ben Van Raalte, Jr. (1876-1953) served as president. The Holland Daily Sentinel would remain here through 1928, the year Charles A. French (1853-1948) purchased the newspaper. That same year French changed the name to the Holland Evening Sentinel.
The year 1929 saw a change in location of the newspaper. On May 4, 1929 the Sentinel moved into its current home at 54-56 West 8th Street. The Charles A. French family operated the newspaper from 1928 to 1977.
In 1977 new ownership, Stauffer Communications, brought a change in how the newspaper was prepared. Since the 1920s linotype machines, metal print plate and hot lead were used. These were replaced by electronic typesetting machines, computers and plastic plates.