About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0076
  • TitleCommunity art exhibit
  • SummaryCaption: "Community art exhibit--Roberta Melnick, 7, of 29 Bayview Ave., focuses the attention of the judges, sculptor Chaim Gross, center, and painter Moses Soyer, right, on one of her pictures on view at the Coney Island Community Center's art exhibit. Arthur Ruskin, left, of the center staff, seems amused."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 24, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChildren's art ; Community centers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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: Coney Island: Community Center