Bobby Driscoll
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Robert Cletus Driscoll was an American actor who performed on film and television. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios' best-known live-action pictures of that period: Song of the South, So
Driscoll in 1948
Driscoll in The Fighting Sullivans (1944), his debut film
Driscoll in February 1946
Driscoll as Peter Pan in The Walt Disney Christmas Show
Hart Island
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Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. Measuring approximately 1 mile long by 0.33 miles w
Bobby Driscoll
…the neighborhood yielded no positive identification. His unclaimed body was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in New York City's Potter's Field on Hart Island. Late in 1969, Driscoll's mother sought the help of officials at Disney studios to contact him, for a hoped-for reunion with his father, who was nearing…
Aerial view of Hart Island, in 2012
1884 Nautical Chart
A trench at the potter's field on Hart Island, circa 1890 by Jacob Riis
Convalescent Hospital on Hart Island, 1877