About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2310
  • TitleSpring is here
  • SummaryWoman sitting on park bench with coat and purse beside her and section of lawn, two parked automobiles (one is a taxi), and two pedestrians in background. Caption: "Spring in here--Spring (1952) arrived, on schedule, at 11:14 a.m. the sun shone bright ... and Spring fever was just around the corner. In the spirit of Spring-in-Brooklyn, here is a Brooklynite, Mrs. M. Pallon, soaking in the Spring sun in front of Borough Hall and here are the Borough Hall pigeons picking up a light luncheon of peanute-on-the-half-shell provided by Mrs. P."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped; Mar. 20, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBenches ; Pigeons ; Taxicabs
  • 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: Downtown Brooklyn: Neighborhoods: Borough Hall