About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0008
  • TitlePitching in
  • SummaryFour women (three wearing V.F.W. hats) seated at table with ledgers, blocks of tickets, and cans for collecting twenty-five cent donations; woman second from right handing ticket to young man in suit standing before table. Caption: "Pitching in: Don Walson of Philadelphia purchases the 5,000th ticket sold by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary for the fourth annual Brooklyn Against the World series starting tonight at Ebbets Field. The auxiliary members manning the ticket desk in the lobby of the Hotel St. George are, left to right, Anna Laya ... Lydia Mayer ... Mary Ruggiero ... and Lucylle Manzie."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 26, 1949. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVeterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Ladies Auxiliary -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tickets
  • 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: Eagle: Baseball