About This Item

  • TitleSt. John's Home dedicates new athletic field
  • Call NumberSWEL_0582
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "St. John's Home [located in Rockaway Beach] dedicates new athletic field--Photo shows [on platform] David Soder holding mascot Jerome Murphy, Fatts Bodie, and Jack Dempsey." Image includes several other unidentified men and a group of boys, some of whom are wearing baseball uniforms.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: June 2, 1938; photographer's name inscribed. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • SubjectSt. John's Home for Boys (Queens, N.Y.) ; Baseball -- New York (State) -- New York ; Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceQueens (New York, N.Y.)Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.