About This Item
- TitleDanger beckons
- Call NumberTRAN_0592
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (TRAN 0593), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption: "Danger beckons--On 62d St. near 9th Ave., the wavering fence surrounding the Long Island Rail Road cut and B. M. T. cut gives up the fight. [In 0593] Francis De Lanzo, 6, of 625 Fort Hamilton Parkway, shows how easy it is to saunter through a hole in the barrier leading to the yards where many children have been killed or maimed by high tension wires, as [in 0592] Mrs. Catherine Solitario of 1016 62d St. rushes after her two-year-old namesake, Catherine, who can clamber over the bent wire to destruction."
- Date1951
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 6 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteCropped and retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 4, 1951; "Eagle staff photo by Geller." Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorGeller, Jules
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectChildren's accidents -- Prevention -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fences -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBay Ridge (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.