About This Item

  • Call NumberHERZ_0835
  • Title[Five adults, one with baby]
  • SummaryFive adults, all with overcoats, sitting on subway with open doors at elevated station; in middle, man with mustache and glasses flanked by young women, one reading book or magazine, other gazing upward; at far right middle aged woman with head scarf and glasses looking into camera; at far left woman in profile holding baby dressed in winter clothes; subway map and route signs ("242 St-B'way/Flatbush Av") behind heads of middle passengers.
  • Date[ca. 1960]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorHerzberg, Irving I. [photographer]
  • SubjectMaps ; Signs [lctgm] ; Reading ; Infants ; Subways
  • CollectionIrving I. Herzberg photograph collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsIrving I. Herzberg photograph collection, 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.
  • FolderIrving I. Herzberg photograph collection ; Folder: Subway images