About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2449
  • TitleWant streets made one-way
  • SummaryThree adults and four boys at sidewalk table in Midwood with sign reading, "Sign our petitions to the Honorable Thomas A. Dwyer for one-way streets & more foot patrolmen"; brick apartment building in background. Caption: "Want streets made one-way -- Collecting petitions to have four Parkville streets made one-way are, left to right, Assemblyman Thomas A. Dwyer, Jesse Cohen, president of Midwood Civic Group, and Mrs. Juliet Lockhart, while neighborhood youngsters look on. Streets in question are E. 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th, between Avenue H and Foster Avenue."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 26, 1954. Title from caption on verso. On caption: "Eagle Photo by Kruh." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPetitions [lctgm] ; Boys ; Public officers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Midwood (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: Midwood: Neighborhoods