About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0428
  • TitleGetting the big show ready
  • SummaryMan in apron lettering sign showing samples of metal. Caption: "Getting the big show ready: The finishing touches to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Birthday Exhibit in the Brooklyn Eagle Building are being added by these workmen preparatory to the 'Invitation Preview' Sunday night and the public opening of the big event Monday. Left, Max Krumholtz, 1727 W. 1st St., is lettering an exhibit of a 'welding course for women,' one of the features in the exhibit."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 16, 1945; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLettering ; Signs and signboards ; Exhibitions -- 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: Eagle