About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0463
  • TitleAccentuate that positive line!
  • SummaryCaption: "Accentuate that positive line!--That's what Willard Mullin, famous Scripps-Howard sports cartoonist, is telling the [five] sailor-artists in the Eagle's Red Cross Arts and Skills Exhibit. Mr. Mullin, extreme left, was yesterday's 'guest art teacher' and demonstrated sketching technique to the wounded veterans who are re-learning old trades or learning new ones."
  • 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: May 4, 1945; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMullin, Willard, 1902-1978 ; Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sailors -- 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: Eagle: Exhibitions