About This Item

  • TitleAll aboard for fun
  • Call NumberHOSP_0602
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "All aboard for fun--Patrolman Robert Wills and his charges, Bernard Reidy, 6, and Theresa Kensy, 10, both of St. Charles Home for Crippled Children, wait anxiously for Wilson Line's Liberty Belle to pull into dock so they can get going on American Legion's police post outing to Playland in Rockaway. Five hundred youngsters were the guests of the William E. Sheridan Police Post, headed by Commander Dennis P. Carey."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Jul[y] 22, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle; Photography by Jules Geller. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChildren with disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Passenger ships -- New York (State) -- New York ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.