About This Item

  • TitleJunior cleanup corps
  • Call NumberSWEL_0044
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Junior cleanup corps--The first contingent of 1,500 teenage members of the Brownsville Boys Club are inducted as Sanitation Department aides to help clean Brooklyn streets. Deputy Sanitation Commissioner Harry Serper, right, swears in Jerry Tobin, 10, as other club members await their turn at department headquarters. At left is Abe Stark, chairman of the club's board of governors."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 10, 1947; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrownsville Boys Club
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.