About This Item


  • Call NumberSWEL_0302
  • TitleProclaims Day Care Week
  • SummaryCaption: "Proclaims Day Care Week--Borough President Cashmore holds the proclamation he issues designating this week as Day Care Week, observed by child care centers with the object of having state aid to the centers reinstated. ... With the borough president are State War Ballot Commissioner Neil M. Leiblich, chairman of the day nursery committee of the Brooklyn Jewish Child Care Council, and Mrs. Helena Mallay Lesk, chairman of the day care committee of the Brooklyn Council for Social Planning."
  • Date1950
  • 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: Feb. 22, 1950; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCashmore, John, 1895-1961 ; Day care centers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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: Social welfare: Centers: Child care: Day Care Week