About This Item

  • TitleOh say, can you see?
  • Call NumberSCHL_0907
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Oh say, can you see?--If you are subject to night blindness, ... this machine will tell the story. It is the biophotometer which Leon S. Dorfman and Bernard Friedman, science teachers at Fort Hamilton High School [located at 8301 Shore Road], constructed out of scrap material in the school laboratory. Marion Viladesan and Joseph Cutri, juniors, are giving the device a try-out;" large chart in background.
  • Date1943
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jan 31, 1943; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFort Hamilton High School (New York, N.Y.) ; Biophotometry -- New York (State) -- New York ; High school students -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.