Happy birthday to us

Happy birthday to us
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Title: Happy birthday to us
Description:

Caption: "Happy birthday to us--Borough President Cashmore applies his signature--in chocolate icing--to a cake proclaiming that today is the 307thy anniversary of the founding of Brooklyn. Witnessing the signature is Norman H. Free, manager of the Hotel St. George, which provided proclamation pastry."

Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Geller, Jules.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Jun[e] 12, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle; photograph by Jules Geller.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Holidays
Subject: Cashmore, John, 1895-1961.
Anniversaries
Birthday cakes
Birthdays
Hotelkeepers
Municipal officials and employees
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
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: HOLI 0372