About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0046
  • TitleChild photo contest begins at A & S store
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (DEPT 0045), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two studio portraits of the same person as a baby (0046) and as a young man in Marine uniforn (0045). Caption: "CHILD PHOTO CONTEST BEGINS AT A & S: Just 17 years ago, Mrs. William Coughlin of 1404 Schenectady Ave. had her son, James, photographed in A & S's Basement Store photo studio for the sixth Children's National Photographic Contest. . . . Today, little Jimmy is no longer little but a pround member of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. . . . This year, as in the past, A&S Basement Store is serving as photographic headquarters for the 20th Children's National Photograph contest. . . ."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 16, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAbraham & Straus ; Infant boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Marines -- 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: Department Stores: Abraham & Straus: Misc. II