About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0011
  • Title1915 parcel delivery service
  • SummaryTwo men in uniform posing with Abraham & Straus delivery carriage harnessed to white horse on street at unknown location. Caption: "1915 PARCEL DELIVERY SERVICE: Picture shows an Abraham & Straus horse-drawn wagon, manned by deliverymen Eddie Luft, left, and Frank Chick Rosso, about to deliver the purchases of borough shoppers."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso of copy 2. On verso of copy 2: date stamped: Feb. 3, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAbraham & Straus ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Carriages and carts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Driving horses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Department stores -- Employees -- 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: Department Stores: Abraham & Straus: Delivery Vans