Posts Tagged: Country Fair
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The Royal Couple
‘Butch’ Landesman and Jeannie Roberts were the King and Queen of the Brooklyn Country Fair in 1941. Butch’s gesture of tossing a handful of posies to the audience was apparently quite the show stopper according the May 9, 1941 issue
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The Royal Couple
‘Butch’ Landesman and Jeannie Roberts were the King and Queen of the Brooklyn Country Fair in 1941. Butch’s gesture of tossing a handful of posies to the audience was apparently quite the show stopper according the May 9, 1941 issue
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Flatbush Collision Repairs
Gerie Becker and Myron Helfgott pose for a photograph that was later displayed with other pictures, posters, and a scarecrow in a straw hat in a Woolworth window to advertise for the 1943 Brooklyn College Country Fair.
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Flatbush Collision Repairs
Gerie Becker and Myron Helfgott pose for a photograph that was later displayed with other pictures, posters, and a scarecrow in a straw hat in a Woolworth window to advertise for the 1943 Brooklyn College Country Fair.
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Ready, Aim, Fire!
Students participate in toy gun game at the 1950 Brooklyn College Country Fair.
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Happy 11th Birthday Brooklyn College!
The Brooklyn College Country Fair was initiated by Dean Adele Bildersee in 1938. A historical note about the fair describes how Dr. Harry D. Gideonse, president at Brooklyn College from 1939 to 1966 annually would be photographed cutting the ‘birthday’
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Happy 11th Birthday Brooklyn College!
The Brooklyn College Country Fair was initiated by Dean Adele Bildersee in 1938. A historical note about the fair describes how Dr. Harry D. Gideonse, president at Brooklyn College from 1939 to 1966 annually would be photographed cutting the ‘birthday’