About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_1153
  • TitleFor safer driving
  • SummaryCaption: "For safer driving--Special car [with large sign, "AAA dual control driver training car; courtesy Pontiac Motor Division," on side] for instruction of students at Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades [located at Bedford Avenue, North 12 Street, and Nassau Street] is turned over to Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, behind wheel, by John R. Crossley, vice president of Automobile Club of New York. The car will be the first to be used in the city for on-the-road high school driving instruction."
  • Date1947
  • 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. 1, 1947; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn High School of Automotive Trades (New York, N.Y.) ; Automobile driver education -- New York (State) -- New York ; Automobiles -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Schools: Public: High schools: Brooklyn H. S. of Automotive Trades