About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0664
  • TitleGroup of children at picnic tables in Prospect Park.
  • SummaryGroup of children eating at picnic tables in Prospect Park, with one woman in the background. Sarah and Troy Richardson are captured in the image. Summary derived from inscription on back.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original photograph, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 3, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Linda Burke Galloway at Boys and Girls High School. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectParks ; Picnics ; African American children
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.