About This Item

  • TitleClass in jam session
  • Call NumberSCHL_0098
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Class in jam session--Students of Brooklyn College's unique Adult Education Jazz Course gather at Child's Paramount Restaurant, Manhattan, for 'field observation' of authentic Dixieland jazz. Seated, left to right, are Herbert Thorne, May Fuhrman, Doris Jeffrey, Edith Prager. Standing: Leonard Kunstadt, instructor Robert Reisner and Jayson Feinberg. The course deals with jazz as true American music from Afro-Cuban origin to contemporary 'bop'."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 14, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn College ; College students -- New York (State) -- New York ; Eating & drinking -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Restaurants -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceNew 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.