About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0428
  • TitleHope springs eternal
  • SummaryCaption: "Hope springs eternal--Some day 12-year-old Louis, third from left, who is a patient at Kings County Hospital, hopes to follow in the baseball footsteps of his idol, Joe DiMaggio. Louis has Cooley's anemia and has had 450 blood transfusions to date. The Allison Manufacturing Company sent him a DiMaggio shirt which was presented by Brooklyn Red Cross Nurse's Aide Sadie Lohman, right. Dr. Philip Shoob, left, and Dr. Victor Ginsberg, second from left, attended the ceremony."
  • Date1949
  • 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: Feb. 26, 1949; Photographed by Publicity Photographers. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectKings County Hospital (Kings County, N.Y.) ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nurses' aides -- New York (State) -- New York ; Physicians -- 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: Kings County: General.