About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0768
  • TitleQuigley opens competitive examinations
  • SummaryCaption: "Quigley opens competitive examinations--On hand to oversee the Brooklyn Post Office employees taking part in the department's largest written competitive examination [all seated back to camera] were, left to right, Assistant Superintendent George Young; Sam S. Gelb, foreman, seated; Postmaster Edward J. Quigley; Assistant Postmaster Jeremiah M. O'Brien; Martin Shapiro, general superintendent of finance; Edwin J. Shannon, general superintendent of mails; Howard Swain, representing the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce; John Ort, secretary to the postmaster, and Edward Rose, senior assistant superintendent in charge of personnel."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 15, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPostal service -- Employees -- 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: Post office: Employees