About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0041
  • TitleFirst Negro assemblyman
  • SummaryCaption: "First Negro assemblyman--Bertram L. Baker, second from the left, the first Negro Assemblyman from Brooklyn, is sworn in by Supreme Court Justice E. Ivan Rubinstein while Stephen J. Carney, left, commissioner of water, gas and electricity; the Rev. John C. Coleman, third from left, member of the Board of Education; Mrs. Baker and Lloyd Herzka, assistant to Borough President Cashmore, look on."
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Dec. 22, 1948. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBaker, Bertram L. (Bertram Llewellyn), 1898-1985 ; African American legislators -- 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: Portraits: Baker, Bertram L