Title: | Reduced Dodger ducats |
Description: | Three men in suits exchanging tickets, apparently at counter in Abraham and Straus Department Store at Fulton and Hoyt Streets; sign on counter reads, "Dodger Baseball Gift Ticket Plan On Sale Here." Caption: "Reduced Dodger Ducats: Chester A. Allen (center), president of the Kings County Trust Co., and Walter Oberstebrink (left), president of the Brooklyn Junior Chamber of Commerce, purchase the first cut-rate general admission tickets for the 1955 Ebbets Field season from William Tobey, vice president of Abraham & Straus, the club's sales agency in Brooklyn." |
Date: | 1954 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 16, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Brooklyn Dodgers [4]
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Subject: |
Abraham & Straus. [5] Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) [6] Baseball fans [7] Department stores [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 0344 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/8867acd4cafbbf91157f8227a6a2f832&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Downtown+Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Brooklyn+Dodgers
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Abraham %26 Straus.
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Baseball fans
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/d/Department stores