About This Item
- Call NumberNEIG_0023
- TitleLeaning tenement of Brooklyn
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0019), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two men, one Black, stand in doorway of tenement; mail box attached to doorway, right, and garbage can on each side of doorway. Caption: "Leaning tenement of Brooklyn--It looks like the fun house at an amusement center, but it spells terror to the three families [still] occupying the doomed and crumbling building at 617-19 DeKalb Ave. ...Reporter stands in doorway which leans precariously as contrasted to dotted line perpendicular to sidewalk."
- Date1952
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 7 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 23, 1952; photographer's stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorGeller, Jules [photographer]
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectSlums ; Tenement houses
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (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: Bed. Stuy.: Housing