About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_1087
  • TitleCharles Steffin
  • SummaryInscription: "Scout [Charles] Steffin, winner of the Brooklyn Edison Scout, [who] hitchhiked from Washington, D.C. to Brooklyn, in front of the Henry Ward Beecher monument at Borough Hall."
  • Date1926
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Oct. 13/26. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBeecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 ; Awards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Boy Scouts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Statues -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Utilities: Consolidated Edison: Miscellaneous