About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1910
  • TitleBeach closed
  • SummaryCaption: "Beach closed emphatically--The Police Department has closed off the road to Gerritsen Beach waterfront with this huge pile of soil and concrete blocks. Joan Wagner, 10, Theodore Scallon, 4, Loretta Reid, 9, and Mary Jane Scallon, left to right, who have been barred from the beach, look over the wall."
  • 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: Jul[y] 22, 1945; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBeaches -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gerritsen Beach (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: Gerritsen Beach: General