About This Item

  • Call NumberBANK_0133
  • TitleBanking procedure--1866 style
  • SummaryCaption: "Banking procedure--1866 style--Professional actors [two men, two women] portraying the opening day scene of June 30, 1866, at the Lincoln Savings Bank, 531 Broadway, during open house ceremonies held yesterday at the bank to celebrate the completion of extensive alterations to banking floor and mezzanine. Counters made of planks and wooden horses actually were used when bank opened 88 years ago."
  • Date1954
  • 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: Jun[e] 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFrench, A. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectActors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • 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: Banks: Lincoln Savings: General