About This Item


  • Call NumberHOSP_0260
  • TitleChristmas party for hospitalized vets
  • SummaryCaption: "Christmas party ofr hospitalized vets--Hilda Liner of the Benevolent Association of Trimming Buyers persents a gift at Fort Hamilton Veterans hospital to Jack Werber, a World War I veteran, while a nurse [Joyce La Belle] and other World War I veterans who have already received their gifts . The verterans are, left to right, Christi Scozzari, Larry Spurek, and Joseph Artale." Cropped out of the image, on the far right, are World War II verteran Norma Dore, Korean War veteran Monserrate Caraballo, Frieda Platt of B. A. T. B., and Eva Bernard, head of Veterans Committee."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: date: Dec. 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGifts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nurses -- 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.)
  • 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: Fort Hamilton Veterans: Staff & patients: II