About This Item


  • TitleShirley Booth
  • Call NumberPORT_0077
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0073, PORT 0081, PORT 0076, PORT 0075, PORT 0074, PORT 0078), some of which may also be described in this new record; Seven studio portraits of actress Shirley Booth, in conjunction with her appearances in the Broadway plays: By the Beautiful Sea, Come Back, Little Sheba, Land's End, The Time of the Cuckoo, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
  • Date1946, 1953, 1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • Note0074, 0077, 0078: grease pencil cropping marks; 0078, 0081: retouched. Dates stamped on verso: 0073: May 28, 1953; 0074: Apr. 13, 1953; 0075: Apr. 9, 1953; 0076: Dec. 4, 1951; 0077: Sep[t] 1, 1946; 0078: Sep[t] 26, 1952; 0081: Apr. 2, 1954. Stamped on verso: "Brooklyn Eagle," except 0077; 0081 "Leo Friedman, Photographer." Title from captions and inscriptions on versos.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectBooth, Shirley, 1898-1992 ; Actresses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Place[Location unknown]
  • 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.