It's springtime in Flatbush
Title: | It's springtime in Flatbush |
Description: | One of four views of work crews maintaining and preparing Ebbets Field; 0146 (6 x 9 in., with irregular portion missing from lower right) shows three workers with wheel barrow, shovel, hoe, and heavy roller at home plate; see also DODG 0137, 0139 and 0144. Caption: "It's Springtime in Flatbush: Regardless of what the thermometer says, a hardy crew spruces Ebbets Field for next Friday's pre-season inaugural with the Yankees. Above left, majordomo Jimmy Thomson prepares a bale of wire to replace wornout equipment [not shown]. Elsewhere busy technicians look after screen along the right-field foul line [0144] and other sections of the park." |
Date: | 1954 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) |
Creator: | Senko, Mickey. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on versos. On versos: date stamped: Apr. 4 (or 5), 1954; "Eagle Sports Photos by Senko"; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched. |
Collection: | Brooklyn Dodgers
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Subject: |
Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Employees. Baseball fields Lost architecture |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
ID: | DODG 0146 |