About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0040
  • TitleBertram L. Baker
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0043), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two portraits, in different sizes, of Bertram L. Baker. He was the first African American to be elected as assemblyman, in 1948, in Brooklyn.
  • Date1945, 1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBaker, Bertram L. (Bertram Llewellyn), 1898-1985 ; African American politicians -- 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: Portraits: Baker, Bertram L