Title: | Good cheer for patients |
Description: | Caption: "Good cheer for patients--Albert C. Haas, left, navy shipfitter, 2d class, and Ralph C. Poness, right navy chief storekeeper, demonstrate to Wave Mary Wright [in wheelchair], at Brooklyn Naval Hospital, that three Christmases as prisoners-of-war of the Japs didn't deprive them of their ability to trim a tree. Moises Montoya, center, navy steward's mate, 2d class, waged guerilla warfare against the Japs in the Philippines hills." |
Date: | 1945 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 23, 1945; on caption:"Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Hospitals [3]
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Subject: |
Christmas trees [4] Hospital patients [5] Hospitals [6] Sailors [7] Wheelchairs [8] |
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 0539 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/c2c2ac423a41fd5a355cdd1f0c399d6a&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Hospitals
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Christmas trees
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Hospital patients
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Hospitals
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Sailors
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/w/Wheelchairs