About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0124
  • TitleHappy birthday, dear Elsie
  • SummaryPublicity photo of young woman presenting bouquet of hay and flowers to "Elmer" bull, symbol of Borden Milk Company; photographer, girl in diary costume, and onlookers in background. Caption: "Happy birthday, dear Elsie: Bee J. Browning, who worked with E[lmer] at the World's Fair in 1940, presents a bouquet [to] Elmer in honor of the bovine beauty's 10th birt[hday] party. Celebration was held at the Hotel Roosev[elt], Wednesday, December 11."
  • Date[1940?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographspublicizing
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso.
  • SubjectBorden Company ; Bulls -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceNew 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: Dairies: Borden Milk Co