About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2041
  • TitlePawns of destruction
  • SummaryTwo black boys sitting on bottom step of interior stairway. Caption: "Pawns of destruction--Like war waifs ... , these two Williamsburg youngsters pose amid the ruin of another holocaust, the slum blight, which has all but swallowed up that section of Brooklyn."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Dec. 11, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al [photographer]
  • SubjectAfrican American children ; Boys ; Slums
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Williamsburg: Housing: Interior