About This Item


  • TitleMarionette Theater
  • Call NumberPARK_0251
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PARK 0250, PARK 0247, PARK 0246, PARK 0249, PARK 0248), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six views of children watching performances at Prospect Park's Marionette Theater.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0248, 0251: 8 x 10 in. Grease pencil cropping marks. 0246 includes Paul Spillage, 9, and puppeteer Judy Hartshorne holding Fairy Queen marionette. 0249 includes Sheila Connerty, 5, of 637 11th St., and 0250 shows David George 5, and his sister, Ruth, 4, of 338 16th St." On verso: date stamped: Aug. 8, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Stamped on verso of 0246 and 0249: "Fox." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAudiences ; Marionettes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (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.