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  • TitlePostal delivery
  • Call NumberWORK_1111
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Postal delivery--Representing the Brooklyn Post Office Employees Community Fund, Postmaster Edward J. Quigley presented checks totaling $10,500 to representatives of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant charity organizations. ... Left to right, John Zentgraf, president of the Holy Name Society of the Brooklyn Post Office; the Rev. William H. Mooney, associate diocesan director of Catholic Charities; the Rev. Arthur A. Rouner, president of the Brooklyn division of the Protestant Council; George Falkenberg, president of the St. George Association of the Brooklyn Post Office; Cy Fisher, president of the Jewish Postal Employees, and Assistant Postmaster Jeremiah M. O'Brien. Mr. Quigley is seated."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCatholic Church -- Clergy -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York ; Postal service -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Protestant churches -- Clergy -- 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.