About This Item


  • TitleWelcome home for 100-game winners
  • Call NumberDODG_1160
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryWives and children of Brooklyn Dodger players waving from behind chain-rope barrier in night photograph at LaGuardia Airport. Caption on verso: "Welcome Home for 100-Game Winners: Big welcome greets Dodgers at LaGuardia Field . . . [W]ives and youngsters watch as plane wings in from St. Louis at 10:55 last night. Left to right are Mrs. Wayne Belardi, Mrs. Bob Morgan, Mrs. [Pee Wee] Reese, Mrs. Duke Snider, Mrs. Carl Erskine, Mrs. Russ Meyer and Mrs. Al Walker. Youngsters are Kevin Snider, Dan and Gary Erskine."'.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsnight photographyphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep. 18, 1953; "Eagle Photos by Senko." Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorSenko, Mickey
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectReese, Pee Wee, 1918-1999 -- Family ; Snider, Duke, 1926-2011 -- Family ; Erskine, Carl -- Family ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; La Guardia Airport ; Baseball players' spouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wives -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Queens (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.