About This Item

  • TitleGold medal award
  • Call NumberNEIG_2097
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFour women posing with paper or document. Caption: "Gold medal award -- Leaders of Williamsburg Settlement, 17 Montrose Ave., confer on nominations for settlement's Gold Medal award to be given at annual dinner in May. Left to right are Mrs. Morris Kirsch, entertainment chairman; Mrs. Siegfried Seidner, award chairman, Mrs. Murray Bittner, settlement president, and Mrs. Albert Hartman, co-chairman. Previous award winners for giving aid to the underprivileged and typifying the American way of life are Bernard Baruch, Elinor Roosevelt and Senator Herbert H. Lehman."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: caption stamped: Mar. 25, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWomen ; Committees ; Awards ; Social settlements
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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.