About This Item
- Title[Mail helicopter]
- Call NumberWORK_0756
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 0755), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of mail helicopter. Caption (0755): "Pilot Frank T. Cashman, inside helicopter, hands pouch of mail to co-pilot Roy P. Beer while Postmaster Quigley looks on approvingly." Image includes an unidentified man standing in far left foreground. 0756 shows group of people, mostly men, all back to camera, looking at mail helicopter about to land. Image includes unidentified church and apartment house in right background. Both locations, presumably Brooklyn, are unknown.
- Date1947
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 6, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title supplied by cataloger.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectAir mail service -- New York (State) -- New York ; Helicopters -- New York (State) -- New York ; Postal service -- 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.