Title: | Woman pulling a switch |
Description: | Worker in industrial kitchen raising arms; hot dog buns on counter before her; other workers in background. Caption: "Woman Pulling a Switch: Hilda Chester, most famous Dodger fan of all, shifts allegiance (just for the Series, mind you) and gives out with a Giant-sized victory prophecy for the erstwhile hated Durochermen from across that bridge. With a sic 'em roar and a fling of her arms, Hilda, a hot dog handler at Belmont Park Race Track, chose the Giants and hoped she could swing her hex the other way . . . " |
Date: | 1954 |
Location: | Elmont (N.Y.) [2] |
Creator: | Senko, Mickey. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 29, 1954; "Eagle photo by Mickey Senko"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. |
Collection: | Brooklyn Dodgers [3]
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Subject: |
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) [4] Belmont Park (Elmont, N.Y.) [5] Baseball fans [6] Food service employees [7] |
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 0193 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/8a94122ef7cf5f498c71ca2e4f525c32&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Elmont+%28N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Brooklyn+Dodgers
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Belmont Park (Elmont, N.Y.)
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Baseball fans
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Food service employees