About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0202
  • TitleGives the good news
  • SummaryCaption: "Gives the good news--Borough President John Cashmore, center, presiding at last night's meeting of the Local Board of Improvement, informs a group of taxpayers [most of whom have backs to camera] who petitioned for the regrading and reflagging of E. 2d St. from Avenue X to Y that the project, to cost an estimated $9,750, has been approved."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 19, 1946; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCashmore, John, 1895-1961 ; Politicians -- 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: Portraits: Cashmore, John: 1940-1949: I