Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph digitized on October 21, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture offsite by Katherine Freitag. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
SummaryMichael Angelo Maffetone, who immigrated from Naples, Italy in 1896, working as a printing press operator at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Maffetone, great-grandfather of the image donor, Katherine Freitag, worked at the Eagle for 57 years.
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