About This Item
- TitleHome fires wanting
- Call NumberNEIG_0479
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryYoung black woman standing in rundown, makeshift kitchen in apartment at 191 Duffield Street. Caption: "Home fires wanting--Mother of three children cooked for family and husband on burners of this small oil stove perched on bench in passageway between two bedrooms. Small oil burner is common makeshift in Brooklyn's cold water flats."
- Date1952
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 12, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorKruh, Johnny [photographer]
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectCooking ; Slums ; Women, Black
- 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.