Grand opening

Image represented is one of a related set (DEPT 0049), some of which may also be described in this new record; Nearly identical images (with different croppings) of ribbon cutting ceremony at Abraham & Straus department store on Fulton Street; 0049 shows four people; 0052 shows three people, with man on right cropped out. Caption on verso of 0049: "Borough President John Cashmore (third [i.e. second] from left) cuts the ribbon opening the exhibit 'Brooklyn: Panorama of Tomorrow' during the housewarming festivities, as R. E. Blum (left), vice-president of the store, Mrs. Howard E. Nieman, one of the store's oldest charge customers, and Walter Rothschild, president of the store, look on."