About This Item

  • Title[H.V. Kaltenborn blowing out candles]
  • Call NumberEAGL_0326
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryH.V. Kaltenborn blowing out candles of birthday cake; NBC microphone on table before him; wall map behind. Typed caption on verso: "H.V. Kaltenborn, the dean of them all, comments on today's news that HVK celebrated his nineteenth anniversary on the air. Kaltenborn lauched his radio career in 1922, when he was still an associate editor of the Brooklyn Eagle...."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: 4/23/41; NBC Photo stamp. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorNational Broadcasting Company [photographer]
  • SubjectKaltenborn, H. v. (Hans), 1878-1965 ; Brooklyn eagle ; Newspaper editors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Birthday cakes ; Microphone
  • 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.