About This Item


  • Call NumberOSOS_0467
  • TitleStudio portrait of boy in sailor suit and girl in lace dress.
  • SummarySiblings Peter (age 6) and Helen (age 4) Sheehan posing for a studio portrait before a garden backdrop.
  • Date1918
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsstudio portraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original document, 6 x 4 inches, digitized on March 1, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Sheila Gallagher-Tierney at Dyker Library. 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]
  • SubjectChildren ; Siblings
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.