About This Item
- TitleEarly bird gets choicest seats
- Call NumberDODG_1038
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryFour men in office (possibly the mayor's office at City Hall) posing for exchange of tickets. Caption on verso: "Early Bird Gets Choicest Seats: Mayor Impellitteri acts as willing salesman while Roy Campanella and Ralph Branca of the Dodgers and Fred H. Lewis, let to right, purchase goodly chunks of tickets for Dodgers-Yankees benefit game Monday night, July 21, at Yankee Stadium, Proceeds go to sandlot baseball funds in this city."
- Date1952
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 23, 1952 photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorNoble, Bob
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectImpellitteri, Vincent R. (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987 ; Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993 ; Branca, Ralph, 1926- ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- 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.