About This Item


  • Call NumberOSOS_0379
  • TitleBaby in carriage and girl in front of store.
  • SummaryAileen, in carriage, and Paula Silver outside of Jack's Candy Store, their family's business located at 859 Green Avenue / 144 Stuyvesant Avenue. Cigarette advertisements in window, including Camel cigarettes.
  • Dateca. 1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph, 5 x 3 inches, digitized on January 30, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Paula Silver at Park Slope Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • SubjectGirls; Babies; Baby carriages; Advertising--Cigarettes; Storefronts ; Stores, Retail
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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