Strange As It May Seem - Digital Collections

Call NumberEAGL_0224
TitleStrange As It May Seem
SummaryClose-up view of the entrance of a dry cleaning shop with signs, "Grade A cleaning; Tocque Method" and "We Dye to Live While Others Live to Die; The Longer We Live, the Better We Dye; The More We Dye, the Better We Live; Painless Dyeing." The shop is located, presumably, in Brooklyn, and the image was used in a Brooklyn Daily Eagle feature, Strange As It May Seem.
Date1933
Formatstill image
Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
NoteDate inscribed on verso: Oct. 11/33. Printed on recto: "Eagle." Title from inscription on verso.
CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
SubjectBrooklyn daily eagle ; Dry cleaning industry -- New York (State) -- New York ; Dye industry -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- 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: Eagle: Columns: Strange As It May Seem