About This Item

  • TitleOld timers
  • Call NumberWORK_0650
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Old timers--Come on, ye old timers -- particularly you Bay Ridge grandmas -- see if you can spot your favorite butcher in this [large, posed] group [of men and women sitting and standing on steps of unidentified building], taken about three decades ago at New Dorp, Staten Island. Among them are Sam Heyman, Dave Wolf, Gus Fraedrich, Anton Werner, Dave Deyer, Henry Schwanewede, Dick Selke, Andrew and Eddie Karl, Henry Himstedt, Ed Lies and son, Eddie."
  • Date[1922?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Feb. 17, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectButchers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceStaten Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.