About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0788
  • TitleBig business
  • SummaryCaption: "Big business--All the stamps visible here are sold in an hour at Brooklyn post offices and branches. Holding $2,000 in air mail stamps in package is Assistant Superintendent of Postal Finance, Charles Eginton, while Assistant Postmaster Jeremiah M. O'Brien, at left, and Postmaster Edward Quigley look over stock in stamp vault."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPostage stamps -- New York (State) -- New York ; Postal service -- Employees -- 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: Post office: Stamps