About This Item


  • Call NumberHOSP_0028
  • TitleFirst gift
  • SummaryCaption: "First gift--Charles Duffy, blind employee of the Industrial Home for the Blind, presenting on behalf of all employees of the home the first contribution to the 1951 fund campaign of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital [located on Cumberland Street]. Accepting the check, at right, is Louis C. Willis, president of the hospital." The hospital was located at 29 Greene Avenue.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Feb. 2, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Publicity Photographers." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBlind persons -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Hospitals: Brooklyn Eye & Ear