About This Item


  • TitleCourt client
  • Call NumberGOVT_0022
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior of courthouse at 4th Avenue and 43rd Street in Sunset Park (not Bay Ridge) showing woman (back to camera) standing before two doors with "MAGISTRATE COURT" written on windows; man with glasses on other side of doors, perhaps about to open them. Caption on verso: "COURT 'CLIENT': A woman enters Bay Ridge Court, possibly to answer a summons, possibly to seek one, possibly to serve as a witness."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 3, 1945; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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.