About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0423
  • TitleCutting Navy Yard birthday cake
  • SummaryCaption: "Cutting Navy Yard birthday cake: Rear Admiral Freeland A. Daubin, Commandant of the Yard, cuts the cake at the buffet supper and reception in the Eagle Building last night, opening the Navy Yard Exhibit. The Yard's 144th birthday was celebrated with a nationwide broadcast, the reception, and the opening of the exhibit. Left to right in this picture are Rear Admiral R.L. Leahy, Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, Vice Admiral H.F. Leary, Admiral Daubin, Rear Admiral S.S. Kennedy, and Rep. James Heffernan of the House Naval Affairs Committee."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 19, 1945; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectUnited States. Navy -- Officers ; Birthday cakes ; Exhibitions -- 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: Eagle