About This Item

  • TitlePutting his foot in it
  • Call NumberHOSP_0467
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Putting his foot in it--Mrs. George Martin, British war bride, shows her baby son, Gary, his hospital certificate bearing his footprint, and the number 22,000. The baby was the 22,000th born at Long Island College Hospital since the adoption of the use of footprinted hospital birth certificates 18 years ago."
  • Date1946
  • 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: Aug.5, 1946; Photograph by Bernard Ravitz. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorRavitz, Bernard
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLong Island College Hospital ; Birth certificates -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Newborn infants -- 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.