About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0300
  • TitleAdolph Brown
  • SummaryStudio portrait of elderly man. Caption: "Friends and co-workers of Adolph Brown, artist and an Eagle Art Department worker for nearly half a century, said goodbye to him yesterday at an informal gathering at the plant marking his retirement...."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar 17, 1951; "Eagle Staff Photo" on caption. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • SubjectBrooklyn eagle ; Commercial artists -- New York (State) -- New York ; Newspaper 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: Eagle: Employees: Brown, Adolph