About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0150
  • TitleVisitors from Sweden
  • SummaryCaption: "Visitors from Sweden--Benjamin H. Namm, second from right, president of Namm Loeser's department store [located on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn], welcomes members of delegation of Swedish retail merchants on tour here. Namm officers feted visitors at smorgasbord luncheon. Left to right, Capt. Eskil Melcher, chairman, Swedish Dry Goods Retail Association; Gustaf Ekholm, chairman, Swedish Retail Association; Mr. Namm, and Gustav Borgstrom, director, S. R. A."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jan 17, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectExecutives -- New York (State) -- New York ; Retail trade -- Employees -- Sweden
  • 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: Namm, A. I. & Son: Namm, Benjamin H., Major