About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0730
  • TitleFloyd Patterson
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0725), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views, in different poses, of Floyd Patterson, Brooklyn resident and African American boxer, with his trainer, Frank Lavelle.
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 11, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPatterson, Floyd ; African American boxers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Boxers (Sports) -- 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: Portraits: Patterson, Floyd