About This Item


  • TitleHitch-hikers
  • Call NumberCRIM_0099
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Hitch-hikers ... among the army of youth seeming somewhere a haven and a job." Image shows a man standing in snow helping a teenage boy down from a freight train ladder. Both are wearing winter clothing.
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCropped and retouched. Date inscribed on verso: Feb. 26/36. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectJuvenile delinquents -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads -- Freight -- New York (State) -- New York ; Snow -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.