Title: | It's springtime in Flatbush |
Description: | One of four views of work crews maintaining and preparing Ebbets Field; 0137 (5 x 5 in.) shows worker adjusting seat with hammer and screwdriver; see also DODG 0139, 0144, and 0146. Caption: "It's Springtime in Flatbush: Regardless of what the thermometer says, a hardy crew spruces Ebbets Field for next Friday's pre-season inaugural with the Yankees. Above left, majordomo Jimmy Thomson prepares a bale of wire to replace wornout equipment [not shown]. Elsewhere busy technicians look after screen along the right-field foul line [0144] and other sections of the park." |
Date: | 1954 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Senko, Mickey. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on versos. On versos: date stamped: Apr. 4 (or 5), 1954; "Eagle Sports Photos by Senko"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched. |
Collection: | Brooklyn Dodgers [4]
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Subject: |
Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) [5] Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees. [6] Baseball fields [7] Lost architecture [8] |
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 0137 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/45d90fa13c63cbc60958ba8862a1d679&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Crown+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Brooklyn+Dodgers
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.)
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees.
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Baseball fields
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture