About This Item

  • TitleBank staff plays Santa
  • Call NumberBANK_0228
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Bank staff plays Santa--Employees of the South Brooklyn Savings Bank buy Christmas gifts for the children of the Salvation Army's Nursery and Foster Home Service, 347 Herkimer St. Left to right: Jean Speth, Mrs. Dorothy Ryer and bank president Rodney C.Ward, present a token gift of a doll to Carol O'Rourke, Mrs.Brigadier Mary Honsberger, superintendent of the home, and Mrs. Theodore Schleuning, president of the nursery's auxiliary."
  • Date1954
  • 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: Dec. 22, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSalvation Army ; Bank employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Christmas -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.