About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0994
  • TitleSide by side
  • SummaryCaption: "Side by side--Christmas tree and Menorah candles share the spotlight at the Christmas-Chanukah party at Thomas Jefferson High School, Pennsylvania and Blake Aves. [G]ladys Goldberg of Thomas Jefferson High School lights the candles. Looking on, left to right, are Thelma Harry [African American], East New York Vocational High School; Charles Soresci, Public School 174; Gizella Melman, P. S. 159, and Sidney Levine, P. S. 159;" six baskets of canned food and wrapped gifts in foreground.
  • Date1945
  • 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, 1945; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectThomas Jefferson High School (New York, N.Y.) ; African American girls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Christmas trees -- New York (State) -- New York ; High school students -- New York (State) -- New York ; Menorah -- New York (State) -- New York ; School children -- 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: Thomas Jefferson