| Title: | A pair of troppers get together |
| Description: | Caption: "A pair of troppers get together--Veteran Harold Russell, who lost both hands in the war and won two Academy Awards for acting, meets 6-year-old Harold Rood of 191 Garfield Place, who lost both legs under a trolley, in a ward of St. Charles Hospital, 277 Hicks St. Walter Johnson, 5 (left), and Mauro Decillus, 9, watch. Young Harold, who will be fitted with artificial legs soon, is taking his misfotrune 'like a major,' nurses say." |
| Date: | 1947 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 30, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Hospitals [3]
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| Subject: |
Russell, Harold, 1914-2002. [4] Hospital patients [5] Hospitals [6] Motion picture actors and actresses [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 0579 |