About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0105
  • TitleTieing up traffic
  • SummaryGroup of mothers, many with children and strollers and some with signs, standing in roadway before automobiles at housing project bounded by Hoyt, Bond, Douglass, and Wyckoff Streets. Caption on verso: "Tieing Up Traffic: Protesting a rash of traffic accidents around the Gowanus Housing Project, a group of 40 women staged baby-carriage demonstrations at two points in the area today and tied up traffic for 20 minutes. Here they are at Warren and Bond Sts. It was only after a great deal of pushing and shoving that the demonstrators were persuaded to return to the sidewalk."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 17, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mothers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Demonstrations -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBoerum Hill (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: Housing: Gowanus Houses