About This Item


  • TitleAppoints transit policewomen
  • Call NumberWORK_0737
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Appoints transit policewomen--Commissioner G. Joseph Minetti of Board of Transporation swears in Anita Wirt, center, of 31 Bay 34th St., and Shirley E. Derbes, 41 St. Paul's Place, as subway policewomen. ..."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 13, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectOaths -- New York (State) -- New York ; Policewomen -- 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.