About This Item

  • TitleCharles Meyer
  • Call NumberPORT_0131
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0132), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views, in different sizes, of Chief Engineer Charles Meyer washing dishes and sleeping aboard S. S. North Star during Admiral Richard Byrd's Antarctic Expedition of 1939-1940.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Date inscribed on versos: Nov. 19/39. Stamped on versos: "Wide World Photos." Title from caption on verso of 0132.
  • CreatorWide World Photos, Inc.
  • SubjectMeyer, Charles ; Explorers -- United States ; Dishwashing ; Sleeping [lctgm]
  • 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.