About This Item

  • Call NumberEAGL_0433
  • TitleKawiet, Puleez
  • SummarySmiling sailor holding audio device at chest and woman holding gloved fingers to ears; palm fronds, bamboo, and curtain in background. Caption: "Kawiet, puleez: Anne Egazarian, Brooklyn Navy Yard machinist (believe it or not), receives a demonstration of the beachmaster set from Jimmy Sasnett. The set is capable of amplifying the human voice about 10,000,000 times -- sufficient to direct invasion traffic above the noise of battle, and, in the Eagle Building, that's loud! Here, on his 'jungle beachhead' of the Navy Yard exhibit, Jimmy keeps set tuned low...."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 26, 1945; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSailors -- United States ; Sound -- Equipment and supplies ; Exhibitions -- 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