Bundling Up

Alice

Black and white photograph depicting a toddler dressed in a winter suit with bonnet. They are standing on the sidewalk with brown boots and cars and buildings in the background.
Toddler on the sidewalk in a winter suit., [1950?], Gelatin silver print, OSOS_0182; Our Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.

It finally feels like fall in New York and Brooklynites are starting to bundle up. This photo of the week takes us to the sidewalks of 1950s New York where little Cataldo Piccione poses for the camera in his one-piece winter suit. While the exact location of this scene is unknown, we can see the familiar sight of buildings rising in the background and a not quite legible advertisement on the side of one of these buildings. On November 22, 1950, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported the weather as: "partly cloudy, cold; tonight fair, cold." (November 22, 1950, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 1). Stay warm, little Cataldo! And stay warm, Brooklyn!

This photo was donated for capture by Kaitlin Holt and digitized as a part of Our Streets, Our Stories (OSOS), a community heritage project part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge. To see more images, ephemera and objects from this project, visit the Our Streets, Our Stories collection on our digital collections portal. To listen to oral histories and view transcripts, visit OSOS's oral history hub.

Interested in seeing more photos from CBH’s collections? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images, or the digital collections portal at Brooklyn Public Library. We look forward to inviting you to CBH in the future to research in our entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections. In the meantime, please visit our resources page to search our collections. Questions? Our reference staff is available to help with your research! You can reach us at cbhreference@bklynlibrary.org.

 

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