About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0303
  • TitleHands across the sea
  • SummaryCaption: "Hands across the sea--Some $11,000 worth of Terramycin, newest American antobiotic 'wonder drug,' destined for treatment of cholera sufferers in India, is accepted by Mme Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian Ambassador to the United States, from John E. McKeen, left of Charles Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn, manufacturers of the drug, and Dhiren Dey, India's largest antibiotic importer, who made gift jointly."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 17, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDrugs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Factories -- New York (State) -- New York ; Pharmaceutical industry -- 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: Factories: Pharmaceutical: Pfizer, Charles & Co.: I