About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0853
  • TitleReal "sidewalk" cafe
  • SummaryFifteen or sixteen sanitation workers lounging on sidewalk; bushes and trees behind iron fence in background. Caption: "Real "sidewalk" cafe: Sanitation men of District 41, Ridgewood, are shown eating lunch on sidewalk at Chauncey St. and Central Ave. They have asked the Sanitation Department to provide transportation to district headquarters or to other points where there are restaurant and washroom facilities."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 25, 1954; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorRansom, Llewellyn
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRefuse collectors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (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: Sanitation Department: After 1940