Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Beardless Santa

Caption:"Beardless Santa--Fred Allen, radio comedian, simply couldn't wear the traditional whiskers while passing out these Christmas packages to...

Beatrice Moore
Beauties all

Caption: "Beauties all--The five winners of the beauty contest [all holding tropies] of the New York City Community College annual field day held at...

Beauty advice

Caption: "Beauty advice--Model agency head Harry Conover gives some beauty tips to three finalists in 10th annual 'Miss St. John's' contest. All...

Beauty and the beach

Two young women sitting on blanket on beach; portable ice chest and trash receptacle on left; portion of amusement park in blurry...

Beauty care

Caption: "Beauty care was stressed in the Williamsburg Vocational High School fashion show. Grace Ventimiglia of 27 Jefferson St. creates a coiffure for...

Beauty culture class

Caption: "Shown [here is] a class in beauty culture [manicuring and hairdressing at Brooklyn Industrial High School for Girls located...

Beauty secrets

Man in suit holding cosmetic pencils and standing behind seated woman at unidentified location, possibly in office of Abraham & Straus...

Beauty to spare

Fourteen young women in one-piece bathing suits standing on covered table in unidentified park. Caption: "BEAUTY TO SPARE: Contestants who failed to...

Becomes friend for life

Caption: "Becomes friend for life--Mayor O'Dwyer accepts plaque signifying his life membership in the Friends of St. Charles Hospital...

Bedford-Stuyvesabt project rises

Apartment building under construction; man walking toward building in center foreground; parked automobiles and...

Bedside book service

Caption: "Bedside book service--Patient Walter Mead picks out his reading matter at Kings County Hospital with the help of hospital...

Before the count

Cavernous interior of armory on Bedford Avenue in Crown Heights, showing election workers milling about tables and cabinets; one group of workers at left...

Before the curtain rises

Two men in costume and one man in suit shaking hands before curtain. Caption: "Before the Curtain Rises: Walt Whitman (William Jaeger),...

Belle of the ball

Scene in Prospect Park at the annual Anniversary Day parade of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, mayor and borough president holding costumed child...

Ben Hur

Entrance to Ben Hur Race ride at Coney Island with commercial buildings on both sides, several pedestrians, and street with trolley tracks in foreground.

Benefit bridge

Caption: "Benefit bridge--Mrs. Arthur S. MacGregor, chairman, admires one of the prizes districuted at the bridge party the Guild of the Long...

Benefit disabled vets

Caption:"Benefit disabled vets--Kings County Lodge of the Moose sent service committee to Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital to hand out...

Benefit leaders

Caption: "Benefit leaders--Mrs. Andrew P. Bacchus, general chairman, Mrs. G. Eugene Zimmerman, co-chairman, seated left to right, and Mrs.Edward...

Benefit planned

Caption: "Benefit planned--Mrs. Joseph P. Canfield, Mrs. William J. Clancy, and Mrs. George A. Manfredonia (seated left to right) and Mrs. James...

Benefit planners

Caption: "Benefit planners--Mrs. Henry M. Hunter, Mrs. Edward M. Fuller, and [Mr]s. Samuel P. Bailey (left to right) were photographed in the...

Benefit planners

Caption: "Benefit planners--Mrs. Ann B. Hargert, Mrs. Emmett J. Barrington and Mrs. Axel P. Paulsen (left to right) are pictured discussing...

Benefit planners

Caption: "Benefit planners--Mrs. John Nicol, chairman of tickets; Mrs. Stuart Ogilvie, general chairman, and Mrs. John J. McCamley, president...

Benjamin H. Namm

Portrait of Major Benjamin H. Namm, president and chairman of the board of directors of A. I. Namm & Son department store located on...

Benjamin H. Namm

Portrait of Major Benjamin H. Namm, president and chairman of the board of directors of A. I. Namm & Son department store located on...

Benjamin Namm

Caption: "Maj. Benjamin Namm, president of Namm's [A. I Namm & Son department store located on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn], is chairman...

Bennett House

Bennett house. Kings Highway / Nearest Ryders Lane cor Ocean / Dr. Ralph I. Lloyd [handwritten on verso].

Bennett House, 95th Street and Shore Road

Exterior view of the side and front of a historic house, including the porch, street, sidewalk...

Bennett House, Bath Beach

Exterior view of a wing to a historic house including the surrounding yard and trees. (Bennett House - Bath Bch. - New Utrecht...

Bensonhurst

Exterior view of a teenage boy embracing a teenage girl on the subway platform at the Bay Parkway/22nd Avenue stop in Bensonhurst. They appear to be of...

Bergen House

Bergen House. Gravesend / Dr. Ralph I. Lloyd [handwritten on verso].

Bergen House, Bergen Beach, Flatlands

Exterior view of a historic house, including the yard in the forefront, in Bergen Beach. (Bergen House...

Bergen House, Water Front. Larkins Beach.

Exterior view of a historic wooden house, a dirt driveway and an adjacent shed. The yard is...

Bernard Zender

Half-length portrait against neutral background of Brooklyn Dodgers farm outfielder Bernard Zender in uniform. Caption: "Bernard Zender . . . a...

Bert Wells

Studio portrait of Bert Wells (in suit and tie), a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Bertram Podell, Phil Silverman, Mel Heiko, Bernard Freidman and Vincent Mutari

Caption: "The annual...

Best crop ever

Caption: "Best crop ever--Care of thriving broccoli like that given by Leonard Wiener, left, and David Franklin, right, [both working with hoes]...

Best friends

Close-up, exterior view of two African American teenage girls, facing each other, holding hands, and holding a plastic cup of a beverage in the other...

Best People on Earth

Caption: "No wonder they call the Elks 'Best People on Earth.' Brooklyn lodge put on a variety show in Fort Hamilton Hospital with a starr...

Betsy Ross flag

Caption: "Betsy Ross flag--Dorothy Warner [as Betsy Ross] holds replica of early version of the Stars and Stripes in student pageant [flanked by...

Better Coney Island

Caption: "Better Coney Island is among plans of Council of Coney Island Social and Athletic Clubs, of which some executive committee...

Better than street corners

Caption: "Better than street corners--Flatbush Boys Club members gather around fireplace and listen to tales of great outdoors...

Betty Shabazz

Close-up view of leadlines in the New York Post, "Betty Loses Fight for Life," and The Final Call, "Nation Prays for Betty Shabazz." The newspapers...

Bevy of beauties at ball

Three young women in exotic costume; fourth woman in contemporary dress; all with hands on gift-wrapped package. Caption: "BEVY OF...

Bicycle Built for 200

Inscription: "On Bicycle Built for 200 at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, 2 of the dancers from Broadway musical hit, "By the Beautiful...

Bicycle riders

Caption: "Bicycle riders watch their companions plant forsythia around Our Lady of Lourdes shrine at St. Philomena Training School, House of Good...

Bicycle with steam engine

Man wearing suit standing behind bicycle with steam engine on exhibit at American Museum of Public Recreation in Coney Island; man...

Big belle meets little Belle

Caption: "Big belle meets little Belle--First prize winner in the costume division of the Coney Island Mardi Gras baby...

Big four meeting

Caption: "Big four meeting--Taking time out at the annual dinner and dance of the Andrew Jackson Democratic Club at the 11th A..D. in the Hotel...

Big marijuana haul

Caption: "Big marijuana haul--Seizing 80 pounds of stuff that reefers and bad dreams are made of, are Deputy Inspector Peter Terranova,...

Big moment

Caption: "Big moment--James Cattrano, the 'boy wizard billiard player,' draws a bead on an exhibition game in the Flatbush Boys Club, 2245 Bedford Ave.,...

Big moment

Caption: "Big moment--Left to right: Jackie Sanchez, Richie Montero, Terrance McCallum [holding large ball], John Corpas, Antonio Ortez, James Jankowski...

Big rush is on again

Very large crowd (seen from behind) waiting in line outside Loeser's department store; "going out of business" signs in storefront windows;...

Big time for orphans

Comedians Milton Berle (in Santa Claus outfit) and Martha Raye sitting with thirteen children of varied ethnicity in unknown location....

Big Tree West of Paerdegat Bridge

View of a large, bare tree, centered between two barns and surrounded by fields. According to handwritten note...

Bigger than he is

Caption: "Bigger than he is--Jay Silverstone, 9, of 408 Georgia Ave., saws away on double bass which towers over him in Public School 174 [located at...

Bigtime coffee burglars

Caption: "Bigtime coffee burglars--Left to right, Vincent J. Barbella, 30; William Ferrara, 19, and Anthony Baldi, 38, charged...

Bill Antonello

Four portrait views, in two different sizes, of Bill Antonello, Brooklyn Dodgers player. 0081 and 0082 show him holding bat.

Bill Antonello

Half-length portrait against neutral background of Brooklyn Dodgers and minor league outfielder Bill Antonello in uniform. Caption: "Bill...

Bill Antonello

Half-length portrait against neutral background of Brooklyn Dodgers and minor league outfielder Bill Antonello in uniform. Caption: "Bill...