About This Item

  • Call NumberMEMO_0085
  • TitleForgotten
  • SummaryWoman in patterned dress (back to camera) standing before World War I Memorial in shape of a granite shaft surmounted by an eagle; man and woman on park bench in right background; apartment building and storefront immediately behind memorial; street receeding into distance in left background. Caption on verso: "Forgotten: A lone passerby stops to read the inscription on the neglected mounument at 94th Street and 5th Ave."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: Eagle Staff photo; date stamped: Aug 19 1945. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Monuments -- New York (State) -- New York ; War memorials -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Hamilton (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: Memorials: 4th Ave. & 94th St. WW I