About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0940
  • TitleGeorge Huntington Hartford
  • SummaryCaption: "[Studio portrait of] the founder of the A & P stores, the late George Huntington Hartford, who opened the first store on Vesey St., Manhattan, in 1859." The image is not dated.
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectHartford, George Huntington, 1833-1917 ; Businesspeople -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceNew York (N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Stores: A & P (Atlantic & Pacific): Old