About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0720
  • TitleMusical sextette
  • SummaryCaption: "Musical sextette [of students at Brooklyn High School for Homemaking, President Street and Classon Avenue, playing baritone, trombone, saxophone and double bass], getting in hot practice licks, are Terry Romeo, standing at back; seated: Joan Murphy, Barbara Lythcott, Ethel Bradley. Girl with the bass viol is Rhoda Blum." Two of the girls are African American. Another girl standing in back is unidentified.
  • Date1948
  • 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: Dec. 19, 1948; "Eagle staff photos." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn High School for Homemaking (New York, N.Y.) ; African American girls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Baritone -- New York (State) -- New York ; Double bass -- New York (State) -- New York ; Saxophone -- New York (State) -- New York ; Trombone -- 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: Schools: Public: High schools: Brooklyn H. S. for Homemaking