About This Item

  • TitleIt's a lizard
  • Call NumberBANK_0056
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "It's a lizard!--Brooklynites pause to gaze in amazement at weird-looking rubber lizard hanging, inset, over imposing main entrance of Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn. It was strung up to keep pigeons from annoying customers entering and leaving the bank. Officials, suprised themselves, say it works."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 30, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBank buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Spectators -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, 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.