About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_0055
  • TitleGives penmanship exhibition
  • SummaryBrooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella and executive Branch Rickey posing together holding (not autographing) contract in unknown location. Caption: "Gives Penmanship Exhibition: Roy Campanella, popular Negro catcher, autographs his Dodger contract for 1950 as Branch Rickey looks on with great pleasure. Roy will get close to $15,000."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 29, 1950; "Eagle Sports Picture." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCampanella, Roy, 1921-1993 ; Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; African American baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Baseball team owners -- 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: Sports: Baseball: Dodgers: Campanella, Roy: II