About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0511
  • TitleDisabled vets' friends
  • SummaryCaption: "Disabled vets' friends--Members of Baron DeKalb Council, Knights of Columbus, who regularly assist paraplegic and arteriosclerotic patients to Sunday and Holy Day mass at the Manhattan Beach Veterans Hospital, are shown with patients Jimmy Gilleece (left) and Jack Leonard. Standing (left to right) are Al Soeller ofSheepshead Bay, who is in charge of organizing the volunteer wheelchair assistants, Thomas Dacey, one of the volunteers, and Thomas Anderson, Grand Knight of the Baron DeKalb Council. ..."
  • Date1948
  • 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.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Volunteer hospital workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wheelchairs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBorough Park (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Manhattan Beacn Veterans Hospital