About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0020
  • TitleFree clinic for kids' pets
  • SummaryChildren and mothers with their pets gathered around man seated at school desk set up outside van marked "Mobile Clinic." Caption: "Free Clinic for Kids' Pets: Lining up for free exams for everything from dogs to birds, turtles and goldfish, kids tell troubles to Sam Machhi of Speyer Hospital for Animals mobile clinic, outside Bushwick Health Center. In foreground, Joseph and George Ferraro of 139 Jefferson St. explain that Skippy's feet hurt so they brought him in Mom's shopping basket."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jul. 17, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVeterinary hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children and animals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (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: Social Welfare: Animal Shelters: Speyer Animal Hospital Mobile Clinic