About This Item

  • TitleGood cheer for patients
  • Call NumberHOSP_0539
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Good cheer for patients--Albert C. Haas, left, navy shipfitter, 2d class, and Ralph C. Poness, right navy chief storekeeper, demonstrate to Wave Mary Wright [in wheelchair], at Brooklyn Naval Hospital, that three Christmases as prisoners-of-war of the Japs didn't deprive them of their ability to trim a tree. Moises Montoya, center, navy steward's mate, 2d class, waged guerilla warfare against the Japs in the Philippines hills."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 23, 1945; on caption:"Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChristmas trees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sailors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wheelchairs -- 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.