About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2312
  • TitleThat dreamy spring is here
  • SummaryTwo young women sitting on park bench with concrete wall and shubbery in background; woman on right is holding compact in left hand and paper (?) in right hand. Caption: "That dreamy spring is here--As temperature zooms into soothing seventies, Estelle Avalotis of 540 52d St., left, and Mary needrith, 204 Willoughby Ave., pause in lunch hour at S. Parkes Cadman Plaza, in downtown Brooklyn, to dream, maybe, of whatever a young girl's fancy lightly turns to in the Spring."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 4, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBenches ; Cosmetics ; Young women
  • 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: Downtown Brooklyn: Cadman Plaza 1900-1950 (1)