About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0620
  • TitleRobert Moses
  • SummaryCaption: "Park Commissioner Robert Moses and former [New York State] Governor Alfred E. Smith [smoking cigar] are shown as they appeared at today's public hearing on the Moses grade crossing elimination amendment at the State Office Building. The hearing was the first of its kind conducted by a committee of the State Constitutional Convention in New York City."
  • Date1938
  • 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 inscribed: June 6/38; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectMoses, Robert, 1888-1981 ; Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944 ; Governors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Impresarios -- 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: Moses, Robert: Group photos: I