About This Item

  • TitleWalter Emmons Alston
  • Call NumberDODG_0063
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFive portrait views, in four different sizes, of Walter Alston, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers (and Los Angeles Dodgers) from 1954 to 1976.
  • Date1946, 1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note0051 and 0055 are identical. 0057, 0061: grease pencil cropping marks; 0057: cropped. On verso: date inscribed: 0055: Apr. 23, 1946; date stamped: 0057: Apr. 3, 1954; 0061: Nov. 25, 1953; 0063: Apr. 10, 1954. 0063 shows him greeting fans. 0051 is not dated. Title from caption on verso of 0061.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectAlston, Walter, 1911-1984 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball fans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Baseball managers -- 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.