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[Woman and man shaking hands at World Series game]

[Woman and man shaking hands at World Series game]
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Title: [Woman and man shaking hands at World Series game]
Description:

Young woman leaning across top of dugout at Ebbets Field to shake hands with middle-aged man (presumably government official or dignitary) before or during World Series game between Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees; military cap worn by woman reads, "National Soloist, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States."
Date: 1941
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3]
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On verso: date inscribed: 1941.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers [4]
Subject: Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) [5]
Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.) [6]
Baseball fans [7]
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 1174
 
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[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Crown+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Brooklyn+Dodgers
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.)
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Baseball fans