About This Item

  • Call NumberDEPT_0114
  • TitleVeteran employees honored
  • SummaryCaption: "Veteran employees honored--Harry Cohen, outgoing president of the Adolph Legion at the Namm Store, congratulates Frances Gillespie, newly elected president, at a reception for 144 veteran Namm employees in the store's executive conference rooms. Left to right, Leonard Ross, first vice president of the Legion and store general manager; Miss Gillespie; Anna McMahon, new vice president; Cohen; Edgar Baum, chairman of the Namm board of directors, and Samuel Weil, honorary president of the Legion." Image includes man on far left and woman on far right, both unidentified.
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Oct. 30, 1943. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDepartment stores -- New York (State) -- New York ; Executives -- New York (State) -- New York ; Retail trade -- 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: Department stores: Namm, A. I & Son: People