About This Item


  • Call NumberCHUR_0133
  • TitleWith the greatest of ease
  • SummaryTwo girls in ballet costumes and carrying parasols, dance on platform while boy standing on floor in ringmaster costume looks at them and blows whistle. Caption: "With the greatest of ease--Demonstrating 'aerial' grace at circus staged in school of Plymouth Church [of the Pilgrims], Orange and Hicks Sts. [75 Hicks Street], are Mary Ann Sawka, 4, of 94 Hicks St., and Susan Balamut, 5, of 160 Columbia Heights. Blowing whistle is ringmaster Billy Shulman, 5, of 64 Montague St."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 19, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPlymouth Church of the Pilgrims (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Congregational churches ; Dance for children [lctgm] ; Child actors [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Churches: Congregational: Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims