About This Item

  • TitleFirst flag raising
  • Call NumberHOSP_0723
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 8, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • SummaryCaption: "First flag raising--Hoisting the American flag for the first time at the opening of Brooklyn's new veterans' hospital on the fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor are (left) Joseph Vacchio, Stanley Jameson, and Henry C. Dennis, all veterans of Pearl Harbor."
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFlags -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans -- New York (State) -- New York
  • FolderFolder: Hospitals: Veterans Hospital at Sheepshead Bay
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.