About This Item

  • TitleNylons are a girl's best friends
  • Call NumberWORK_0643
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Nylons are a girl's best friends, even though illness may have left her leg rigid. Mrs. Yvonne Del Grande, of the Visiting Nurse Association [of Brooklyn] shows how stockings may be pulled on by tapes which attach to the tops. At right is an 18-inch shoehorn which makes shoes easier to put on."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 11, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVisiting Nurse Association of Brooklyn ; Hosiery -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hosiery, Nylon ; Visiting nurses -- 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.