About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0611
  • TitleMerry Christmas from Brooklyn's longshoremen
  • SummaryCaption: "Merry Christmas from Brooklyn's longshoremen--Sister Mary William tries out new grand piano presented to St.Charles Hospital, 277 Hicks St., by Brooklyn dock workers who raised $900 for gift. Chorus, reading clockwise, is Joseph Bergen, representing Bush Terminal; Kathleen Harnett, 4; Lt.John J. Boyle of Waterfront Police Squad; Leonard Bolick, 6; Tom Malone, superintendent of West Coast Steamship Line; Michael Dolan, 9, and Eileen Winn, 5."
  • 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: Dec. 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle; Kruh. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChildren with disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nuns -- New York (State) -- New York ; Stevedores -- 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 Hospital: 1951-1954