About This Item


  • Call NumberCRIM_0174
  • TitleCleaning up after vandals
  • SummaryFour girls around entrance of classroom in unidentified public school; other children at desks in background. Caption: "CLEANING UP AFTER VANDALS: School children sweep up wreckage while others inspect jimmied door and broken window in one Brooklyn school visited by rowdies."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from one of two captions on verso; second caption apparently relating to missing photo. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 4, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVandalism -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public schools -- New York (State) -- New York ; School children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- 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: Crime: Vandalism