About This Item

  • Title[Postal service employees]
  • Call NumberWORK_0761
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 1110, WORK 0760, WORK 0763, WORK 0762, WORK 0764), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six views of postal service employees working at various jobs at Brooklyn's main post office in Downtown Brooklyn at Christmastime. 0762 shows Nicholas Adamo of 1642 DeKalb Aveue, Rocco Barbone of 1259 DeKalb Avenue, and Sandy F. Zito of 1161 40th Street working with many sacks of parcel post packages. 0763 shows truck driver Charles Modica of 217 Bleecker Street working on post office platform with John Anderson of 3506 Newkirk Avenue and Anthony Parrinello, right, of 79 Stuyvesant Avenue.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: caption stamped: Dec. 10, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMail sorting -- New York (State) -- New York ; Post office stations and branches -- New York (State) -- New York ; Postal service -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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.