About This Item

  • TitleCarriage trade banking
  • Call NumberBANK_0160
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Carriage trade banking--That's what the Manufacturers Trust Company labels this innovation. To accommodate mothers who formerly had to leave their baby carriages outside the bank, the institution had this window cut into the wall of its Coney Island office, where mother now carries out her banking business without having to forsake junior." Image also includes a bank teller at the window and a large, freestanding sign, "Banking for the Carriage Trade ..." in the left foreground.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteStamped on verso: date: Jul[y] 24, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Freed Studios." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFreed Studios
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBaby carriages -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Bank employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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.