About This Item

  • TitleAmbulance for Red Cross
  • Call NumberSCHL_1073
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1066), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption (1073): "Ambulance for Red Cross--Manual Training High School [later renamed John Jay High School and located at 237 Seventh Avenue] present an ambulance to the Red Cross in memory of former students killed in action. Left to right: Maj. Nana Rice (in ambulance) receives keys from Dr. Horace Mann Snyder, who was principal when the money was collected, Louise M. Harris of the faculty, William W. Barlow, principal, and Gladys Schmidt and Abraham Finegold of the faculty." 1066 shows the same ambulance transporting workers from the Industrial Home for the Blind located at 57 Willoughby Street.
  • Date1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso (1066): date typed: June 9, 1944; 1073: date stamped: Jun[e] 12, 1944; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso of 1073.
  • SubjectManual Training High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (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.