About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0778
  • TitleMelodious mailmen
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0779), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Brooklyn Post Office Glee Club, under the direction of postal clerk Philip Nicosia, singing Christmas carols in the lobby of Brooklyn's General Post Office. Listening are Postmaster Edward J. Quigley and Assistant Postmaster Jeremiah M. O'Brien.
  • Date1950, 1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0779: grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: Brooklyn Eagle stamp; 0778: date stamped: Dec. 15, 1950; 0779: date stamped: Dec. 20, 1954. Title from caption on verso of 0778.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChoirs (Music) -- New York (State) -- New York ; Postal service -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Singing
  • 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: Glee Club