About This Item

  • TitleDangerous game
  • Call NumberCHUR_0819
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySeveral boys playing on city street with commercial/residential buildings on left and in background, several parked and moving automibiles, and man standing in right foreground. Caption: "Dangerous game--Youngsters of the Wallabout section who jeopardize their lives playing games in the street are due for a break. the combines societies of St. Lucy's R. C. Church [802 Kent Avenue] are sponsoring a Puccini Festival Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. ...funds realized ... will be used to build a suitable playground for the youth of the neighborhood."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 4, 1952; caption stamped: Nov. 12, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMarano, C. F.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSt. Lucy's Church ; Boys ; Fund raising ; Play
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.