About This Item


  • TitleClean-up marchers
  • Call NumberNEIG_2046
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryWoman walking with group of interracial children, some carrying pennants and signs reading, "Join up -- Let cleanliness be your hobby"; storefronts, parked automobiles, and onlookers in background. Caption: "Clean-up marchers -- Mrs. Edna Rosenblum, chairman of Williamsburg-Greenpoint District Health Committee leads a group of Williamsburg youngsters at Bushwick Ave. and Cook St., in a campaign to clean up their neighborhood."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Nov. 11, 1949; Eagle staff photo. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDemonstrations ; Children
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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.