About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0125
  • TitleColors
  • SummaryCaption: "Colors--Keeper Adrien J. Boisverts raises the Red Cross standards with the American flag on his Coney Island Lighthouse with the moral support of his family and the approving regard of Sea Gate workers for the Red Cross Fund Drive. Left to right: Joseph Steinberg, special gifts chairman; Mrs. Charles H. Gorran, overall Seagate chairman; Mr. and Mrs. Boisverts and their children--Adrien, 17; Jeanette, 13; Irene, 11; Cecile, 10; Celestine, 9; George, 7, and Leo, 4;" masonry and brick two-story house in background and shingle two-story house on far right.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 22, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFlags ; Lighthouses
  • 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: Lighthouse