About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0744
  • TitleSanta starts early
  • SummaryCaption: "Santa starts early--Just to make sure he shows up at all the places he's expected, Santa Claus, in the person of Frank Pavelka, Wyckoff Heights Hospital elployee, pays a pre-Christmas visit to the hospital. He's telling Eileen Haeberle, 8, of 1722 Harmon St. all about the North Pole."
  • Date1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Dec.23, 1944; photograph by Bernard Ravitz. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorRavitz, Bernard
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChristmas -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Santa Claus -- 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: Wyckoff Heights: General