Good cheer for patients

Good cheer for patients
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Title: Good cheer for patients
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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.)
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
Subject: Christmas trees
Hospital patients
Hospitals
Sailors
Wheelchairs
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