About This Item

  • Title[Airplane in snowy field]
  • Call NumberEAGL_0253
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySmall airplane, apparently used for delivery of Brooklyn Daily Eagle, in snowy field with crowd of onlookers around it; houses, trees, and telephone wires at edge of field. Caption on verso: "Charlie Wellstead's plane, which was pressed into service and started an hour later, is shown shortly after it alighted in a potato patch at Roanoke Heights, near Riverhead."
  • Date1934
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 22, 1934. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectAirplanes ; Newspapers -- Transportation
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceLong Island (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.