| Title: | Good cheer for patients |
| Description: | Caption: "Good cheer for patients--Albert C. Haas, left, navy shipfitter, 2d class, and Ralph C. Poness, right navy chief storekeeper, demonstrate to Wave Mary Wright [in wheelchair], at Brooklyn Naval Hospital, that three Christmases as prisoners-of-war of the Japs didn't deprive them of their ability to trim a tree. Moises Montoya, center, navy steward's mate, 2d class, waged guerilla warfare against the Japs in the Philippines hills." |
| Date: | 1945 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 23, 1945; on caption:"Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Hospitals [3]
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| Subject: |
Christmas trees [4] Hospital patients [5] Hospitals [6] Sailors [7] Wheelchairs [8] |
| 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 0539 |