About This Item

  • Call NumberPARK_0232
  • TitleLanding on lake
  • SummaryCaption: "Landing on lake--Arthur N. Schoepflin, 46, of 1274 Pacific St., ties up his small Luscomb seaplane after he had made emergency landing in Prospect Park [Lake] yesterday. Clare Jatsa, 20, of 82 Mill Ave., who was passenger in flight from Mill Basin, watches operations. In alighting on water, plane barely missed a heavily loaded rowboat, but no on was injured. Police ... gave the pilot a summons ... for low flying." There is a motorboat moored in foreground and group of spectators and section of park in background.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 28, 1950; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLakes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Motorboats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Seaplanes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (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: Parks: Prospect Park: Lake