About This Item

  • TitleDodgers' wives at Penn Station
  • Call NumberDODG_1162
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySix wives (plus two mothers and one daughter) of Brooklyn Dodger players standing together before wall or train shed at Penn Station, presumably awaiting the arrival of their husbands from road trip. Inscription on verso identifies them as: "L to R: 1. Mrs. Dixie Walker -- 2. Dixie Walker's mother -- 3. Mrs. [Howie] Schultz -- 4. Mrs. [Harry] Taylor -- 5. Mrs. [Kirby] Higbe -- 6. Barbara Lee Reese, 2 1/2 yrs -- 7. Mrs. Dorothy Reese -- 8. Mrs. Reese, Peewee's mother -- 9. Mrs. Cookie Lavagetto."
  • Date[1947?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • SubjectWalker, Dixie, 1910-1982 -- Family ; Reese, Pee Wee, 1918-1999 -- Family ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) ; Baseball players' spouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wives -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.