About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0243
  • TitleV A hospital gets colors
  • SummaryCaption: "V A hospital gets colors--A U. S. flag for the library of the new Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Hamilton [i.e. Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital] is presented by Memorial Post, 144, Regular Veterans Association. Left ro right are Jack Werber, post commander; Norman D. Lavoie, chief of special service at the hospital, receiving flag from Erwin P. Bacon, departmental commander of the association, and Vivian Prescott, national president of ladies auxiliary."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Apr. 21, 1950; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVeterans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans' 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: Fort Hamilton Veterans: Staff & patients: I