About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0064
  • TitleA good deed
  • SummaryCaption: "A good deed--Mayor Wagner, second from left, accepts deed to $1,500,000 Brownsville Boys Club from Council President Abe Stark at Waldorf-Astoria dinner honoring Samuel M. Abrams, left, and John Halperin, right, board chairman and member of the board, respectively." Wagner served as mayor of New York City from 1954 to 1965.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 20, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-1991 ; Brownsville Boys Club ; Mayors -- 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: Boys clubs: Brownsville: IV