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Digital image of sepia-tone photo of Mayor Fred DeSapio with Mel Allen of the N.Y. Yankees at a Lions Club function, Hoboken, no date, ca. 1950-1953.
Photograph
Digital image of sepia-tone photo of Mayor Fred DeSapio (right) with Mel Allen, announcer for the N.Y. Yankees at a Lions Club function, Hoboken, no date, ca. 1950-1953. Original print 8" x 10" high, dry mounted and framed. Photographer not indicated. Reverse is blank.
Modern holographic ink notation on back of frame's dust cover by Dr. Gerard DeSapio: Mel Allan (sic) + | Mayor DeSapio.
Allen was the celebrated radio and television broadcast announcer for the New York Yankees baseball team. This event, a breakfast by the appearance of the food on the plates, was apparently broadcast on radio station WINS of New York as seen by the microphone at the right. The location of the event is not given and is assumed to be Hoboken.
2005.043.0040
2005.043
DeSapio, Dr. Gerard
Gift
Gift of Dr. Gerard DeSapio
n/a
1950 - 1953
Hoboken
Date: 1950-1953
Display Value: Good Notes: Museum does not own the original print. Original or Copy: Digital Copy Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2005-06-22