About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0607
  • TitleLargest outing ever
  • SummaryCaption: "Largest outing ever--Young patients leave St. Charles Hospital, 277 Hicks St., for largest one-day outing to be held anywhere. Police Department Anchor Club was host to more than 8,500 crippled and orphaned children at Palisades Amusement Park." Image includes portions of two buses parked in the background.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jul[y] 13, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChildren with disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: St. Charles Hospital: 1951-1954