About This Item


  • Call NumberSCHL_0765
  • TitleRally to girl's aid
  • SummaryCaption: "Rally to girl's aid--Students of Brooklyn Technical High School [located at 29 Fort Greene Place] dug down into their pockets after reading Eagle story of ten-year-old girl who, having lost her mother by death and her father by desertion, was stricken with serious illness. Walter Bruckhausen of Children's Aid Society, which placed girl in a foster home, receiving $217.40 for medical expenses from Peter Cilinsky of students' committee while Daniel Perlmutter and Joseph Berberich, right, look on."
  • Date1946
  • 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. 24, 1946; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorRavitz, Bernard [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Technical High School (New York, N.Y.) ; High school students -- 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 Technical H. S.: Staff