First gift

First gift
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Title: First gift
Description:

Caption: "First gift--Charles Duffy, blind employee of the Industrial Home for the Blind, presenting on behalf of all employees of the home the first contribution to the 1951 fund campaign of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital [located on Cumberland Street]. Accepting the check, at right, is Louis C. Willis, president of the hospital." The hospital was located at 29 Greene Avenue.

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Stamped on verso: date: Feb. 2, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Publicity Photographers."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Hospitals
Subject: Blind persons
Fund raising
Hospitals
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: HOSP 0028