About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0070
  • TitlePrize plane
  • SummaryAdolescent boy receiving trophy from pilot, presumably at Abraham & Straus department store on Fulton Street; curtain behind them. Caption: "PRIZE PLANE: Captain 'Cree' Stelling, Eastern Air Lines check pilot and former All-American football star, awards a Captain Eddie Rickenbacker silver trophy to John Walsh, 19, of St. James, L.I., for his prize-winning model plane entered in the Abraham & Straus Speedee-Bilt Model Plane Building Contest."
  • Date1950
  • 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: Sep. 12, 1950. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAbraham & Straus ; Teenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Award winners -- New York (State) -- New York ; Air pilots -- New York (State) -- New York ; Department stores -- 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: Abraham & Straus: Special Events