About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0120
  • TitleDramatic moment
  • SummaryCaption: "Dramatic moment--Brooklyn College students rehearsing in their new Walt Whitman Hall, the auditorium which will be dedicated Thursday ... The students are rehearsing a new play, 'I, Walt Whitman,' written for the dedication by Randolph Goodman, instructor in English at the college. Walt Whitman (William Jaeger) and Isaac Van Anden (Roger Siegel), standing, engage in a furious argument over Walt's editorials written while he was editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
  • Date1955
  • 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: caption stamped: Jan. 9, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn College ; College students -- New York (State) -- New York ; Theater rehearsals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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: Schools: Adult: Brooklyn College: Students: Drama