About This Item

  • TitleSheepshead Bay
  • Call NumberNEIG_1819
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1821, NEIG 1820), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three images in two different sizes.. Caption (1821): "Traffic stoppers--Women carrying signs and wheeling baby carriages [as well as pedestrians and children with bicycles] block traffic at Avenue W, Knapp St., and Whitney Ave., Sheepshead Bay, in demonstration for erection of traffic light. Corner has been scene of many accidents and near-accidents ... They want traffic light before school opens, said Mrs. Dorothy Jantzer, 2321 Knapp St."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note820: 10 x 8 in. On verso: Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso of 1821.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBaby carriages -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Bicycles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Demonstrations -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sheepshead Bay (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.