About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0008
  • TitleRunaway pet
  • SummaryCaption: "Runaway pet--A. S. P. C. A. worker Morris Thomas holds the indigo snake which turned up ... [at] Waldbaum's Super Market at 1399 Coney Island Ave. Snake escaped a month ago from home where it had been kept as a pet."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 28, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAmerican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; Snakes -- 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: Social welfare: Animal shelters: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: I