About This Item

  • TitleFilm actor aids hospital
  • Call NumberHOSP_0357
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption:"Film actors aids hospital--Tony Curtis, motion picture star, is shown making his contribution to Helen Fiske Smith, member of the volunteer committee for Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Month. The Month is sponsored by the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, E. 49th St. and Rutland Road. Mayor Wagner has designated September Chronic Diseases Month in honor of the hospital's 30th anniversary."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Sep[t]12, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle; Jay Sharp Photos. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCurtis, Tony, 1925-2010 ; Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Motion picture actors and actresses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanatoriums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Volunteer hospital workers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.