About This Item

  • TitleMan working on the printing press at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0072
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMichael Angelo Maffetone, who immigrated from Naples, Italy in 1896, working as a printing press operator at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Maffetone, great-grandfather of the image donor, Katherine Freitag, worked at the Eagle for 57 years.
  • Date[1945?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsphotographsportraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph digitized on October 21, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture offsite by Katherine Freitag. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Daily Eagle ; Printing presses ; Newspaper employees ; Italian Americans
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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