About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0137
  • TitleCrowds throng Loeser's closing out sale
  • SummaryLine of shoppers waiting outside Loeser's department store; "going out of business" signs in storefront windows; policeman (back to camera) in left foreground. Caption: "CROWDS THRONG LOESER'S CLOSING OUT SALE: Part of long lines of shoppers, which stretched around block, wait outside Fulton St. entrance of famed old Brooklyn department store. At noon, doors opened and big sale, which will continue until entire stock is sold out, began. . . ."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 14, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Eagle Staff Photo by Geller." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDepartment stores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Liquidation -- 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: Loeser & Co