About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_1006
  • TitleHands across history
  • SummaryCaption: "Hands across history--Following the unveiling in Lafayette High School [located at 2630 Benson Avenue] today of a portrait of General Lafayette, Georges Clemenceau, grandson of the French Premier, shakes hands before the painting with Dr. Frederick William Oswald, principal of the school."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteRetouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert De Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 -- Portraits ; Lafayette High School (New York, N.Y.) ; Shaking hands [lctgm] ; Portraits -- 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: Schools: Public: High schools: Lafayette