About This Item
- TitlePolice Telegraph Bureau 29 years ago
- Call NumberWORK_0733
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCaption: "Police Department: Policemen. Police Telegraph Bureau 29 years ago--The picnic grounds at Glenwood Landing was the scene of this picture in 1925, when members of the Police Telegraph Bureau lined up for a typical pose of the time. Old Timer Leo Colton of 116-16 201st St., St. Albans, who submitted the picture ... is seated second from the right in the first row ... That's the then Police Commissioner, Lewis Valentine, standing fourth from the bottom in the extreme right hand row, while the then Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, Patrick J. Meehan, stands behind him. The First Deputy Police Commissioner at the time, John Seery, leans forward, fourth from the bottom, in the extreme left hand row."
- Date1925
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Jan. 2, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
- SubjectPolice Telegraph Bureau (New York, N.Y.) ; Police -- New York (State) -- New York ; Telegraph -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceOther place
- LocationGlenwood Landing (N.Y.)
- RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.