About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_2122
  • TitleBaby buggy brigade
  • SummaryInterracial group of eleven mothers, five with baby carriages, standing in middle of intersection with their children; parked automobiles, pedestrians, fire escape, telephone pole, barber shop and bakery in background. Caption: "Baby buggy brigade -- Charging that lack of traffic light at Hoyt and Baltic Sts. invites motorists to use streets as speedway, mothers from adjacent Gowanus Houses block off intersection with baby carriages. Demonstration was ended when police promised to station a patrolman at corner until city acts on traffic light plea."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 21, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMothers ; Children ; Demonstrations ; Baby carriages [lctgm] ; Bakeries
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Gowanus: Hoyt and Baltic Street