About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0263
  • TitleBenefit disabled vets
  • SummaryCaption:"Benefit disabled vets--Kings County Lodge of the Moose sent service committee to Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital to hand out cigarettes to 80 patients. Volunteer Caroline Gitto hands smokes to disabled vet Jack Werber. Others, left to right, are Edwin Steinfeld, Salvatore Avalon, Albert Schanzer, Victor Carbo, and [volunteer] Ann Caliendo."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCigarettes ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans' hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Volunteer hospital workers -- 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: II