Child photo contest begins at A & S store

Child photo contest begins at A & S store
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Title: Child photo contest begins at A & S store
Description:

Two studio portraits of the same person as a baby (0046) and as a young man in Marine uniforn (0045). Caption: "CHILD PHOTO CONTEST BEGINS AT A & S: Just 17 years ago, Mrs. William Coughlin of 1404 Schenectady Ave. had her son, James, photographed in A & S's Basement Store photo studio for the sixth Children's National Photographic Contest. . . . Today, little Jimmy is no longer little but a pround member of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. . . . This year, as in the past, A&S Basement Store is serving as photographic headquarters for the 20th Children's National Photograph contest. . . ."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Aug. 16, 1954 Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Department Stores
Subject: Abraham & Straus.
Infant boys
Marines
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portrait photographs.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: DEPT 0046