About This Item

  • TitleWoman leaning on a highway sign.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0203
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFrances di Giovanni posing next to a New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and Recreation road sign. Inscribed on verso: "5/9/44, To Pat with all my love, Frances. 'God bless you' "
  • Date5/9/1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsportraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph digitized on December 2, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Kaitlin Holt at Central Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectPortraits ; Signs and signboards ; Italian Americans
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceNew 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.