About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0579
  • TitleA pair of troppers get together
  • SummaryCaption: "A pair of troppers get together--Veteran Harold Russell, who lost both hands in the war and won two Academy Awards for acting, meets 6-year-old Harold Rood of 191 Garfield Place, who lost both legs under a trolley, in a ward of St. Charles Hospital, 277 Hicks St. Walter Johnson, 5 (left), and Mauro Decillus, 9, watch. Young Harold, who will be fitted with artificial legs soon, is taking his misfotrune 'like a major,' nurses say."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 30, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRussell, Harold, 1914-2002 ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Motion picture actors and actresses -- 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: St. Charles: 1947-1950