About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0026
  • TitlePenguins for Brooklyn
  • SummaryCaption: "Penguins for Brooklyn--An Abraham & Straus check for $2,500 is presented by Robert E. Blum and Walter Rothschild [holding check], vice president-secretary and president, respectively, of the Fulton Street department store, to Fairfield Osborn [holding penguin], president of the New York Zoological Garden, in payment for a colony of penguins which will take up residence in this borough on completion of the new Aquarium at Coney Island."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 25, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectNew York Aquarium ; Aquariums ; Checks ; Penguins
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Coney Island: Aquarium: General