About This Item

  • TitleFirst graders and their mite
  • Call NumberSCHL_0358
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "First graders and their mite--Little students at Brooklyn Friends School [on Schermerhorn Street] take time off from Christmas pageant to complete wrapping of presents they bought for distribution to patients at Kings County Hospital. Left to right: Charles Joseph, still in his shepherd's costume, Richard Meltzer, alias a Wise Man, Bruse Wittkin as Joseph, and Edith Mendelson and Suzanne Wood, Yuletide chorus girls."
  • Date1949
  • 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: Dec. 17, 1949; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Friends School ; Pageants -- New York (State) -- New York ; School children -- 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.