Music lovers

Music lovers
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Title: Music lovers
Description:

Brooklyn Dodgers manager Charlies Dressen autographing cartoon held by man in straw hat at Ebbets Field before game; Dodger second baseman Jackie Robinson standing just behind Dressen and ready to add his autograph; two other men at left looking on; bat rack in lower right foreground; fans in stadium seats in background. Caption on verso: "Music Lovers: Brooklyn Dodger manager Chuck Dressen adds his signature to scroll to be presented by his team to its loudest rooters during pre-game Sym-Phony Day ceremonies for tomorrow at Ebbets Field. Also waiting to inscribe the players' tribute to the Sym-Phonists '14 years of devotion to all things Brooklyn' is Jackie Robinson, as County Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, chairman of the Sym-Phony Club, approvingly watches at right. Henry Modell, far left, and Herman Kahn beside him, are co-chairman and treasurer, respectively, of the committee."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Sep. 22, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Dressen, Charles.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Ebbets Field (New York, N.Y.)
African American baseball players
Baseball managers
Baseball fans
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 0981