About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0999
  • TitleBig flag
  • SummaryFive-story corner building with flag draped from fourth floor, covering most of building; adjacent four-story building on left; residential buildings across street in right background; lamppost and leafy trees on sidewalk in foreground. Caption: "Big flag -- This giant American flag waved proudly from the facade of the Long-I Grotto, Lafayette Ave., as the borough noted Flag Day."
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped and inscribed: Jun[e] 14, 1943. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks ; retouched.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Apartment houses ; Flags
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene: Lafayette Avenue