About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_1074
  • TitleDemocracy in action
  • SummaryCaption: "Democracy in action--Manual Training High School students [sitting around table] meet with Louis A. Schuker, principal, to discuss school-community problems. Participating are, left to right, Helen Holmberg, Arista secretary; Robert Wood, G. O. president; Melvyn D. Haywoode, senior Arista president; Patricia Mills, secretary; Frank Baldassare, chairman of high school group, National Conference of Christians and Jews; Jacki Mills, editor-in-chief, Manual Weekly, and Mary Jane Driskill, senior class president." The school, located at 237 Seventh Avenue, changed its name in 1960 to John Jay High School and its name changed again in 2001 to Secondary School for Law Journalism and Research.
  • Date1954
  • 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. 7, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectManual Training High School (Brooklyn, 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: Manual Training: Students