| Title: | Prize plane |
| Description: | Adolescent boy receiving trophy from pilot, presumably at Abraham & Straus department store on Fulton Street; curtain behind them. Caption: "PRIZE PLANE: Captain 'Cree' Stelling, Eastern Air Lines check pilot and former All-American football star, awards a Captain Eddie Rickenbacker silver trophy to John Walsh, 19, of St. James, L.I., for his prize-winning model plane entered in the Abraham & Straus Speedee-Bilt Model Plane Building Contest." |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 12, 1950. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Department Stores [4]
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| Subject: |
Abraham & Straus. [5] Teenage boys [6] Award winners [7] Air pilots [8] Department stores [9] |
| 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: | DEPT 0070 |