About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0089
  • TitleWith cream, please!
  • SummaryMan in suit pouring coffee for young women at Mays department store on Fulton Street. Caption: "WITH CREAM, PLEASE!: Joe Weinstein, board chariman of Mays department store, dispenses 'liquid gold' in employes' cafeteria for two cents a cup, while prices of java soar elsewhere to 15 and 20 cents. Store personnel office is swamped with applications for employment."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 8, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorPublicity Photographers
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDepartment stores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Department stores -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Coffee drinking -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cafeterias -- 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: Department Stores: Mays II