New hospital

New hospital
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Title: New hospital
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Caption: "New hospital--Laying cornerstone for the new Brooklyn tuberculosis and Chronic Disease Hospital, Mayor O'Dwyer aplies the first trowel of cement. Left to right in front row are Public Works Commissioner Frederick H. Zurmuhlen; Dr. Irwin E. Siris, president of the Kings County Medical Society; Dr. Marcus D. Kogel, Commissioner of Hospitals, and Borough Works Commissioner John J. Lynch." Both images include several other unidentified men.

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 11, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Hospitals
Subject: O'Dwyer, William, 1890-1964.
Cornerstone laying
Hospitals
Mayors
Municipal officials and employees
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 0149