Title: | Penguins for Brooklyn |
Description: | Caption: "Penguins for Brooklyn--An Abraham & Straus check for $2,500 is presented by Robert E. Blum and Walter Rothschild [holding check], vice president-secretary and president, respectively, of the Fulton Street department store, to Fairfield Osborn [holding penguin], president of the New York Zoological Garden, in payment for a colony of penguins which will take up residence in this borough on completion of the new Aquarium at Coney Island." |
Date: | [Brooklyn Eagle],|1954. |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 25, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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Subject: |
New York Aquarium. [5] Aquariums [6] Checks [7] Penguins [8] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Photographic prints. Gelatin silver 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: | CONE 0026 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/5b2c910e3d3e96494c8a970ebeda7695&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Coney+Island+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Coney+Island
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/n/New York Aquarium.
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Aquariums
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Checks
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Penguins