About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0256
  • TitleLeave us go root for the Dodgers!
  • SummaryCaption:"Leave us go root for the Dodgers!--Alfred C. McKenzie, right, vice chairman of the 1953 compaign of the Brooklyn Division, Protestant Council, presents 20 box-seat tickets to the Dodgers-Cubs baseball game next Wednesday afternoon at Eggets Field for distribution to hospitalized patients at the Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital to Billy B. Simos, left, and James I. Baker." Baker is African American. Image includes another man, unidentified, standing on far left.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Aug. 19, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAfrican American men -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gifts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans' hospitals -- 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: Fort Hamilton Veterans: Staff & patients: II