About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0348
  • TitleThomas E. Dewey
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0345, PORT 0347, PORT 0346), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of Thomas E. Dewey. 0345 shows him with Frederick J. H. Kracke, left, president of the Board of Assessors and Republican County Leader John R. Crews. 0346 shows him with his wife at a voting booth at 1335 Madison Avenue. 0347 shows him being handed $195 on behalf of redcaps of Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Station as a donation to his campaign fund. 0348 shows him handing train ticket to Edwin Olsen at Grand Central Station. Dewey, who served as governor of New York State from 1943 to 1954, conducted investigations of several notorious Brooklyn gangsters.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0345: cropped: 7 x 7 in. Title from inscription on verso of 0346..
  • SubjectDewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 ; Politicians -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)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: Portraits: Dewey, Thomas E