About This Item

  • TitleAdvertising cleanliness
  • Call NumberWORK_0846
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryOversize cutouts of "Dirt" battling citizens ("Pull together for a cleaner New York") on float being pulled by flat-bed truck. Caption: "Advertising cleanliness: The Department of Sanitation is taking the Clean-Up Campaign to the grass roots with colorful floats. Covering all neighborhoods in the city, the floats are followed by a car with a public address system, through which advice is given the residents on ways to improve the areas. . . ."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 13, 1953; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectParade floats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.