Mourn, all ye Giant fans!

Mourn, all ye Giant fans!
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Title: Mourn, all ye Giant fans!
Description:

Man in tie and white shirt looking at doll in toy coffin labeled "Giants." Caption: "Mourn, All Ye Giant Fans!: Tom McDonough, bartender and no Giant fan, shows how it should properly be done as, at Eisen's Bar, 46 Hoyt St., where he is employed, he stands by miniature coffin, flanked with lighted candles, in which 'remains' of that certain baseball club across the river lie ready for interment. Candles were lighted at 1:30 1/4 p.m. yesterday, immediately after start of game in which Polo Grounders were humiliated, 10 to 0."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Oct. 3, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Baseball fans
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
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: DODG 0232