About This Item


  • Call NumberCLUB_0320
  • TitleElks Minstrel Show
  • SummaryCaption: "Leave it to former Magistrate Leo Healy, famous end man of many Brooklyn Elks minstrel shows! ... At a recent rehearsal for the 1951 Elks ... Minstrel Show at the Hotel St. George, Feb. 16, he registered disapproval when Municipal Court Justices Roger Brock and Henry Martuscello gave their first version of the waltz that was danced in Tennessee. ..."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Feb. 7, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectClubs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Judges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Singers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Minstrel shows -- 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: Clubs: Social: Elks: IV