About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0026
  • TitleLife in the open air
  • SummaryMan wearing hat and coat squatting in yard. Caption: "Life in the open air--Health Department official examines primitive cooking methods used by Puerto Rican families in house at 10 Stuyvesant Ave. owned by Bessie Honig. Families cooked their food in back yard of house."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Dec. 2, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Some of the families that have to do their coo[king] outside; inspector, Dept. of Health, Wm. Sihksnel looking at stoves."
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSlums
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Bed. Stuy.: Housing