About This Item


  • Call NumberEAGL_0461
  • TitleAt work on exhibit
  • SummaryCaption: "At work on exhibit--Taking shape in the Brooklyn Eagle Building is the Arts and Skills Exhibit which the Brooklyn Red Cross and the Eagle will put on next week. Directing the setting-up of the various parts of the exhibit are Mrs. A. Robert Swanson, chairman of the arts and skills unit of the Brooklyn Red Cross, [holding ceramic piece] and her assistant, Mrs. E. H. Coester, [wearing Red Cross uniform and holding book], right;" six ceramic pieces on three shelves and Red Cross insignia, superimposed, in background.
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 26, 1945; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCeramics ; Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York ; Red Cross and Red Crescent
  • 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: Eagle: Exhibitions