About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0015
  • TitleJefferson Ave
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0017), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Jefferson Avenue. 0015: caption: "Jefferson Ave. looking west toward Nostrand Ave.; flowers, trees, neat [row of brownstone] homes; no sign of slums." Freestanding sign in foreground: "This is your block. Keep it clean, safe, beautiful." 0017 shows both sides of street with rows of attached brownstone houses and many parked automobiles.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0015: 10 x 8 in.; grease pencil cropping marks. Date stamped on verso of 0015: Jul[y] 27, 1954; 0017: Aug. 20, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0015.
  • SubjectAutomobiles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Brownstone buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Bedford Stuyvesant: Jefferson Avenue