About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0855
  • TitleSetting good example
  • SummaryMan in suit and woman with hat, possibly representatives of a sanitation initiative, smiling at boy holding sign and sitting on lap of his aunt; sign reads, "Dirt breed disease. Can your garbage." Caption: "Setting good example: Two-year-old Johnny Rapsdale, seated on lap of his aunt, Anna, shows sign posted in front of his home at 414 Macon St. . . . ."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 11, 1949; "Eagle staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCivic leaders -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York ; African American boys -- 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: Sanitation Department: After 1940