About This Item


  • Title[Woman and man shaking hands at World Series game]
  • Call NumberDODG_1174
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryYoung woman leaning across top of dugout at Ebbets Field to shake hands with middle-aged man (presumably government official or dignitary) before or during World Series game between Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees; military cap worn by woman reads, "National Soloist, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: 1941.
  • SubjectBrooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) ; World Series (Baseball) (1941) ; Baseball fans -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (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.