About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0073
  • TitleBoys' Club celebrates
  • SummaryBoy tasting birthday cake offered by two Salvation Army officers. Caption: "Boys' Club Celebrates: Edward Grant, 12, of 530 Evergreen Ave., willingly submits as anniversary cake taster at the 10th birthday party of the Salvation Army Bushwick Red Shield Boys' Club, Bushwick and Gates Aves. Commissioner Donald McMillan, Eastern Territorial Commander of the Salvation Army, does the offering while Brigadier Ernest Marshall looks on...."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 28, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSalvation Army ; Birthday cakes ; Boys -- Societies and clubs -- 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: Social Welfare: Boys Clubs: Bushwick