About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0001
  • TitleFaster than hot cakes
  • SummaryCrowd of boys reaching for tickets held by middle-aged man at entrance to haberdashery. Caption: "Faster than hot cakes: Brownsville youngsters besiege Abe Stark, chairman of the Pitkin Ave. Merchants Association, as he distributes free tickets to tonight's 4th annual Brooklyn Against the World baseball game at Ebbets Field...."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 26, 1949. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTickets -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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: Baseball