About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0148
  • TitleFamily sails
  • SummaryCaption: "Family sails--Major and Mrs. Benjamin H. Namm and son were snapped aboard the Swedish American Motorliner Gripsholm before embarking from New York." Namm was the president of A. I. Namm & Son department store located on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn.
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jul[y] 24, 1952; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectExecutives -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Department stores: Namm, A. I. & Son: Namm, Benjamin H., Major