| Title: | Leave us go root for the Dodgers! |
| Description: | Caption:"Leave us go root for the Dodgers!--Alfred C. McKenzie, right, vice chairman of the 1953 compaign of the Brooklyn Division, Protestant Council, presents 20 box-seat tickets to the Dodgers-Cubs baseball game next Wednesday afternoon at Eggets Field for distribution to hospitalized patients at the Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital to Billy B. Simos, left, and James I. Baker." Baker is African American. Image includes another man, unidentified, standing on far left. |
| Date: | 1953 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Aug. 19, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Hospitals [3]
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| Subject: |
African American men [4] Gifts [5] Hospital patients [6] Veterans' hospitals [7] |
| 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 0256 |