About This Item


  • Call NumberOSOS_0359
  • TitlePeople playing ping-pong at Plark Slope block party.
  • SummaryTeenager and child playing table tennis at a block party on 6th Street between 8th Avenue and Prospect Park West. Back of photograph printed as postcard, reading: BigShots, June, 1978. Kodak paper ... Post-a-photo.
  • Date1978-06
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • Genrecolor photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph, 5 x 4 inches, digitized on January 30, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Elayne Archer at Park Slope Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • SubjectBlock parties ; Table tennis
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlacePark Slope (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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