About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0771
  • TitlePostal workers help charities
  • SummaryCaption: "Postal workers help charities--Postmaster Edward J. Quigley distributes Brooklyn Post Office community fund checks to representatives of three major religious charities. Left to right, Monsignor J. Jerome Reddy, director of Catholic Charities; George McGuigan, president of the Brooklyn Post Office Employees Holy Name Society; the Rev. Dr. J. Henry Carpenter, executive secretary, Brooklyn Division, Protestant Council of City of New York; Postmaster Quigley; Dr. Maxwell Sacks, chaplain of the Brooklyn Jewish Postal Employees League for the United Jewish Appeal; Assistant Postmaster Jeremiah M. O'Brien; Andrew Wind, president of the Brooklyn Post Office Employees St. George Association, and Simon Fisher, president of the Brooklyn Jewish Postal Employees Welfare League."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 6, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectClergy -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Postal service -- 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: Post office: Genereal