About This Item


  • Call NumberHOUS_0047
  • TitleThey need a home
  • SummaryMother seated on tattered chair, surrounded by six children; location unknown. Caption on verso: "They Need a Home: Mrs. Catherine Johnsen is shown with six of her 12 children. By March 31 the family must find another appartment. Thus far they have been unable to locate other accommodations. Left to right, Robert, 17; Joseph, 8; Linda, 3; Brian, 2, and Elizabeth, 13, holding Dennis, 1."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 26, 1948; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectApartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Eviction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Poor families -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mother and child -- 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: Housing: Evictions