About This Item

  • TitleXmas lights in Bay Ridge
  • Call NumberNEIG_1141
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFive boys, one girl, man in Santa Claus costume and woman standing on street decorated with Christmas lights. Caption: "Xmas lights in Bay Ridge--Santa joins neighborhood youngsters in a happy audience as Celia Berkowitz of 7222 5th Ave., member of the 5th Ave. Merchants Association, pulls the switch turning on holiday canopy of lights from 70th to 86th Sts. along the thoroughfare."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 1, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFifth Avenue Merchants Association ; Christmas decorations ; Holiday decorations ; Santa Claus
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.