About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0076
  • TitleNew attack on cancer
  • SummaryCaption: "new attack on cancer--The X-ray machine pictured here is one of two new 'moving beam' type of X-ray therapy units installed in the Brooklyn Hospital. Because the units can strike at surface or deep-seated cancers and tumors from many angles, they make possible a more concentrated treatment without damage to the healthy parts of the body. Developed in Germany, they are the first units of this kind to be installed in New York City."
  • Date1955
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGreasepencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jan. 5, 1955; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Hospital ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Radiation ; Radiography, Medical -- 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: Brooklyn Hospital: Staff & patients