About This Item

  • Title[Laying cornerstone at Loeser's department store]
  • Call NumberDEPT_0132
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMen in overcoats laying cornerstone for department store in Long Island. Caption on verso: "Walter Hammitt, vice president of Frederick Loeser & Co., looks on as Mayor John C. Norris of Garden City wields the trowel at the cornerstone laying of the new Garden City branch of Loeser's. . . ."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: Feb. 4/37; photographer's stamp from verso of copy 2. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorPlatnick Photo
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectDepartment stores -- New York (State) -- Garden City ; Cornerstone laying -- New York (State) -- Garden City
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationGarden City (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.