About This Item

  • Call NumberMEMO_0025
  • TitleYou will be seeing these posters in all subways
  • SummaryMan affixing poster ("Help Build The Brooklyn War Memorial") to window of subway car ("Brighton L'C'L"). Caption on verso: "You Will Be Seeing These Posters In All Subways: Samuel Lowe, assistant foreman in the Coney Island yards of the B.M.T., puts up the first Brooklyn War Memorial poster."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 18, 1946. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWar memorials -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York -- Employees
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Memorials: Brooklyn War Memorial: Fundraising I