About This Item


  • Title[Motor buses bring Poly Prep boys to school]
  • Call NumberSCHL_1646
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryClose-up of two parked school buses, one in foreground with just driver, and another, behind, in school's porte-cochere, filled with boys, all students at Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School located at 7th Avenue and 92nd Street; portion of two-story brick building in background.
  • Date1917
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 28, 1917; Eagle stamp. On verso: "Six motor buses bring boys to school from 86th Street Terminal of 6th Ave. Subway." Retouched. Title from inscription on verso; supplied partially by cataloger..
  • CreatorBrooklyn Daily Eagle
  • SubjectPolytechnic Preparatory Country Day School ; School buses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Dyker Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.