About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0786
  • Title[Stamp machines]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0789), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two close-up views of people, including Pauline Slevin in 0786, purchasing postage stamps at a stamp machine at Brooklyn's Main Post Office and guard, Sidney Friedman.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 2, 1950; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso of 0789; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPostage stamps -- New York (State) -- New York ; Postal service -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Vending machines -- 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: Post office: Stamps