About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0195
  • TitleThe leader's chair
  • SummaryCaption: "The leader's chair--John Cashmore, new Democratic leader, occupying traditional seat of power in Brooklyn headquarters. The leather-covered swivel chair and desk are in the leader's second-floor office headquarters at 4-5 Court Square. Here also sat the late Frank V. Kelly, and before him, the late John H. McCooey, whose plaque appears on wall." Image includes telephone on desk in far right foreground.
  • Date1946
  • 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: date stamped: Aug. 11, 1946; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCashmore, John, 1895-1961 ; Plaques -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Telephones [lctgm]
  • 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: Portraits: Cashmore, John: II