About This Item

  • Call NumberTHEA_0061
  • TitleBooks for vets
  • SummaryTwo men in suits and woman in grass skirt standing before table piled with books. Caption on verso: "BOOKS FOR VETS: Norman D. Lavoie, chief of special services in Manhattan Beach Veterans Hospital, left, accepts part of 4,000-book collection assembled in Books-for-Vets Week at Loew's Metropolitan Theater, instituted by Ben Simon, the theater's manager, right. Presentation is made by Anka Crane of 34 E. 31st St., in costume typical of Pacific locale in 'Home for the Brave' movie now showing in Loew's."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep 11, 1949. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBook donations -- 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: Theatres: Loews Metropolitan