Penguins for Brooklyn
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| 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.) Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) |
| 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
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| Subject: |
New York Aquarium. Aquariums Checks Penguins |
| 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 |
