About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0217
  • TitleGood-bye to the old home
  • SummaryCaption: "Good-bye to the old home--Among the 18 persons who left the Danish Home for the Aged, 1055 41st St., to live temporarily at the Odd Fellows Home, 194-10 109th St., Hollis, Queens, were left to right, Mrs. Josephine Petersen, 84, Mrs. Elizabeth Brink, 82, and Knud Fosteen, 82. The Odd Fellows Home will house them until new Danish Home is built. The old structure was condemned as a fire hazard."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 22, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDanish Home for the Aged (New York, N.Y.) ; Older people -- New York (State) -- New York ; Old age homes -- 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: Social welfare: Homes: Danish Home for the Aged