About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0074
  • TitleNo truce in price war
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (DEPT 0082), some of which may also be described in this new record; Very large crowd (mostly women, seen from behind) on street before Mays department store; images identical except for grease pencil marks and slight variantion in cropping. Caption: "NO TRUCE IN PRICE WAR: Customers seeking price-slashed bargains swarm in front of Mays, 510 Fulton St., before doors open for business."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0082. On verso of 0082: date stamped: June. 6, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks on 0082.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDepartment stores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crowds -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Department Stores: Mays I