About This Item

  • Call NumberDODG_0344
  • TitleReduced Dodger ducats
  • SummaryThree men in suits exchanging tickets, apparently at counter in Abraham and Straus Department Store at Fulton and Hoyt Streets; sign on counter reads, "Dodger Baseball Gift Ticket Plan On Sale Here." Caption: "Reduced Dodger Ducats: Chester A. Allen (center), president of the Kings County Trust Co., and Walter Oberstebrink (left), president of the Brooklyn Junior Chamber of Commerce, purchase the first cut-rate general admission tickets for the 1955 Ebbets Field season from William Tobey, vice president of Abraham & Straus, the club's sales agency in Brooklyn."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 16, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAbraham & Straus ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball fans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Department stores -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Sports: Baseball: Dodgers: Fans: Tickets