About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0773
  • Title[Post office posters]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0772), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two close-up views of posters on display in the lobby of Brooklyn's main post office building: "Address your mail plainly," etc. and "Your Brooklyn post office grows and grows," etc.
  • Date1952, 1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: Brooklyn Eagle stamp; 0772: date stamped: Jun[e] 30, 1952; 0773: date stamped: Jul[y] 20, 1953. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPostal service -- New York (State) -- New York ; Posters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- 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: Post office: General