About This Item


  • TitleGeorge Cook
  • Call NumberHOSP_0596
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOSP 0619, HOSP 0595), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views, in different sizes, of polio patient George Cook at St. Charles Hospital. 0595 shows him standing with crutches, wearing abdomen and leg braces. 0596 shows him with other patients Charles Sanchez and Julius Pinto, all using crutches. 0619 shows him lying on a stretcher being treated by Winifred Regan and Sister Henri, physical therapists.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Date inscribed on versos: Feb. 4, 1951. Title from inscription on verso of 0619.
  • SubjectChildren with disabilities -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Nuns -- 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.