About This Item

  • TitleBroiling bucket bridage
  • Call NumberHOUS_0081
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMothers and children with buckets, pots, and bottles standing on plaza; some children in bathing suits; line of leafy trees (probably Fort Greene Park) in background. Caption on verso: "Broiling Bucket Brigade: Carrying anything that will hold water, bucket brigades from Fort Greene Houses line up at the 'town pump' to get emergency rations of the precious liquid. Water pipes burst at project, leaving 700 families without running water for 14 hours, and so . . . ".
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep. 3, 1953; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMother and child -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.