About This Item

  • TitleHappy holiday
  • Call NumberHOSP_0599
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Happy holiday--Anticipation is the keynote as these youngsters from St. Charles Hospital wait with a sister for the arrival of an excursion boat which was to take 500 children today on an all-day sail and outing to Rockaway Playland. Hosts to the youngsters were members of the William E. Sheridan Police Post of the American Legion. Jimmy Fisher, 13, and Ruth McBride, 9, are shown waiting at the Battery for the Liberty Belle of the Wilson Line to dock." Nun and children, who are both using crutches, are standing back to camera.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jul[y] 11, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nuns -- New York (State) -- New York ; Passenger ships -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
  • 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.