About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0710
  • TitleTwentieth century woodbox
  • SummaryChopped wood and portion of metal washtub in old bathtub. Caption: "Twentieth century woodbox--Practice of using bathtub as fuel container, legendary custom of Manhattan's Lower East Side, still survives in Brooklyn as shown here. ... Plumbing in this East New York house didn't work, so family put tub to other use."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Nov. 25, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBathtubs ; Slums ; Wood
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (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: East New York: General (2)