About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2023
  • TitleFound boro chillier than Iceland
  • SummaryCaption: "Found boro chillier than Iceland--Sigurdur Baldvinsson, radio operator, left [with left hand on typewriter], and Kristjan Simonarson, third mate, in radio room of Icelandic freighter Trollafoss, at foot of 20th St., tell of romantic lands to which they have sailed--none more so than their own Iceland."
  • Date1950
  • 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: May 17, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCargo ships ; Merchant mariners
  • 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: Waterfront: Seamen