SummaryCaption: "Free riders--Government officials and members of the citizens committee which won a new bus route in East New York from Alabama Ave, to Eldert Lane rode free on one of the buses after a mass meeting at Lowe's Warwick Theater. Free riders were, left to right (rear), Assemblyman Anthony J. Travia and Councilmen Sam Curtis; (front) Albert Ackerman, committeeman; Joseph H. Schmalacker, secretary to Borough President Cashmore; William E. Boyd, president of the 22d A. D. Democratic Club; Robert E. Hower of the Cypress Hills Boards of Trade, and Edward N. Heerschaft." One other man and three others partially visible are cropped out at far right.
NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On recto: photographer's stamp in lower right corner. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 20, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
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