About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0403
  • Title[Portrait of Edwin B. Wilson]
  • SummaryStudio portrait (head shot): Caption: "[St. Lawrence] University will ... award the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters to Edwin B. Wilson, executive editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Brooklyn Eagle. ...;" by-line: Edwin B. Wilson.
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 1, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. On verso: "Edwin B. Wilson, 1951." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn eagle ; Newspaper employees -- 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: Eagle: Employees: Wilson, Edwin B. & Mrs