About This Item

  • 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