Hope springs eternal
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| Title: | Hope springs eternal |
| Description: | Caption: "Hope springs eternal--Some day 12-year-old Louis, third from left, who is a patient at Kings County Hospital, hopes to follow in the baseball footsteps of his idol, Joe DiMaggio. Louis has Cooley's anemia and has had 450 blood transfusions to date. The Allison Manufacturing Company sent him a DiMaggio shirt which was presented by Brooklyn Red Cross Nurse's Aide Sadie Lohman, right. Dr. Philip Shoob, left, and Dr. Victor Ginsberg, second from left, attended the ceremony." |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Feb. 26, 1949; Photographed by Publicity Photographers. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Hospitals
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| Subject: |
Kings County Hospital (Kings County, N.Y.) Hospital patients Nurses' aides Physicians |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Portraits. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
| ID: | HOSP 0428 |
