About This Item

  • TitleIn Santa's wake
  • Call NumberHOSP_0261
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "In Santa's wake--Marvin Feltz, patient at Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital, accepts three of the more than $2,000 worth of post-Christmas gifts presented to some 900 patients at hospital by Brooklyn Council Veterans of Foreign Wars. Making presertation are Joan McGowan of 523 E. 43d St., hostess at V. F. W.'s Al Jolson Servicemen's Free Canteen, and County V. F. W. chaplain Frank Keeton."
  • 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: Jan. 5, 1954; Jay Sharp, Photographer. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGifts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans' hospitals -- 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.