About This Item

  • TitleEavesdropping
  • Call NumberBANK_0136
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Eavesdropping--Patrons of the Lincoln Savings Bank listen in on Bell Telephone System's newest Radio Relay now installed at bank's main office, 531 Broadway. Lincoln is first business concern in city to use novel display, which has been an attraction of unusual interest to depositors."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 5, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFrench, A. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBanks and banking -- New York (State) -- New York ; Telephone systems
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • 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.