About This Item

  • TitleReel-y nice on a hot day
  • Call NumberDEPT_0023
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySmiling girl with feet in water sitting on retaining wall by lake and holding bamboo fishing pole; five boys standing behind her with fishing poles. Caption: "REEL-Y NICE ON A HOT DAY: One way to beat the heat is to go fishing, as these Park Slope youngsters demonstrate at Abraham & Straus fishing contest which opened today in Prospect Park. New angle is shown by Eugenia Lewandowski, 3, of 584 16th St., and her 8-year-old twin brothers, Robert, right, and Richard."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jul. 16, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAbraham & Straus ; Children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fishing -- Tournaments -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fishing rods -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (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.