About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0214
  • TitleNo easy task for judges
  • SummaryFive men examining newspapers in room with chandeliers and trompe l'oeil pilasters; trophy on table in foreground. Caption: "No easy task for judges: Picking the outstanding secondary school newspapers in the Brooklyn Eagle's first annual 'Scholastic Press Awards' competition kept the judges busy yesterday at the Hotel St. George. Left to right, Professor Leo J. Henkin of Brooklyn College, Harry Ferguson of the United Press, James Wright Brown Jr., president of Editor and Publisher; Dr. William Jansen, New York City Superintendent of Schools-elect, and Monsignor Henry M. Hald, associate superintendent of Catholic Schools in Brooklyn...."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 27, 1947; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorRavitz, Bernard [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Eagle ; Student newspapers and periodicals -- Competitions -- New York (State) -- New York ; Awards -- 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: Celebrations