About This Item


  • TitleInspecting post office expansion plans
  • Call NumberWORK_0781
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Inspecting post office expansion plans--Delegation scanning map depicting Postmaster Edward J. Quigley's plan for adequate postal facilities here, are left to right, Representatives James J. Heffernan and John J. Delaney; Assistant Postmaster J. M. O'Brien; Representative Eugene J. Keogh; Postmaster Quigley, and Representatives Emanuel Celler, Leo F. Rayfiel, and Donald L. O'Toole."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 8, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPostal service -- Employees -- 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.