About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_1064
  • TitleKits for Pacific GIs
  • SummaryCaption: "Kits for Pacific GIs--[Six] Junior Red Cross members at Manual Training High School [located at 237 Seventh Avenue] making wooden boxes for recreation kits which the Brooklyn Red Cross is sending to the Pacific. Left to right, Anthony Padalino, Vincent O'Gara and Robert Hopkins. Arthur Greenwald, shop instructor, inspects completed box." The school changed its name in 1960 to John Jay High School, and again, in 2001, to Secondary School for Law Journalism and Research.
  • Date1945
  • 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: May 20, 1945; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorRavitz, Bernard [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectManual Training High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.) ; School shops -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wooden boxes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Woodwork (Manual training)
  • 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: Manual Training: Students