About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0715
  • TitleMrs. Sloan Simpson
  • SummaryCaption: "Ex-wife of ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer, who says she wants to be called Mrs. Sloan Simpson again, returns from Europe with her mother, Mrs. Eleanora Young, on way to Mexico for church annulment of her broken marriage. Ex-husband Bill O'Dwyer, she says, was always an honest and good man." O'Dwyer served as mayor of New York City from 1946 to 1950.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 2, 1953; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • 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: Portraits: O'Dwyer, William: Second wife: Sloan Simpson: II