About This Item


  • Call NumberSWEL_0355
  • TitleFortune teller
  • SummaryCaption: "Fortune teller--Karen Klein, 8, gazes into the crystal ball while Susan Meisal, 6, and Gary Bergman, 7, anxiously await the mysterious prediction in the act, part of carnival festivities that marked the closing of the Rhoda Schaap Council House Summer Day Camp in Brighton Beach yesterday. ..."
  • Date1951
  • 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: Aug 29, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBoro Hall Photoprint Co.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRhoda Schaap Council House Summer Day Camp (New York, N.Y.) ; Day camps -- New York (State) -- New York ; Day care centers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fortune-telling -- 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: Social welfare: Centers: Child care: III