About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0130
  • TitleFelix Ferranto
  • SummaryView of Corporal Felix Ferranto shaving with an electric shaver aboard S. S. North Star during Admiral Richard Byrd's Antarctic Expedition of 1939-1940.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 6 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Date inscribed on verso: Nov. 19/39. Stamped on verso: "Wide World Photos." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorWide World Photos, Inc.
  • SubjectElectric shavers ; Explorers -- United States ; Shaving
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Place[Location unknown]
  • 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: Byrd, Richard E. Admiral: Antarctic Expedition: 1939-1940