About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0474
  • TitleVisual reporting
  • SummaryCaption: "Visual reporting--Staff painter Donald Matheson puts finishing touches on sign posted at Henry and Pacific St., corner of Long Island College Hospital, to keep passersby up-to-date on progress of institutions's building fund drive. Yesterday's figures were: $661,844.93 raised so far, with $312,000 still needed; total patients, 360; free and below-cost patients, 156; newborn babies, 35. The $312,000 is needed for hospital expansion program, of which major unit is John Osborn Polak Memorial, under construction on Pacific St."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Feb. 6, 1949. Grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFund raising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sign painting -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cobble Hill (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: Long Island College: Staff: II