About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0316
  • Title[Frederick Cook being welcomed home]
  • SummaryTwo images attached to same cardboard backing. Caption on larger image: "The [Arctic] explorer [Frederick A. Cook] being welcomed home [by seven unidentified men and women] in triumph before his claim of discovery was discredited." The second image is close-up, oval-shaped portrait of Cook waving and wearing floral garland.
  • Date1932
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso date inscribed: May 22/32. Title from caption on verso; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • SubjectCook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940 ; Explorers -- Arctic regions ; Explorers -- 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: Portraits: Cook, Frederick A