About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0037
  • TitleA penny a month
  • SummaryCaption: "A penny a month--With 1,000 members contributing a penny a month to the club treasury, BBC rented its first headquarters in 1941--this store at Christopher and Riverdale [Avenues]."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrese pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 29, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrownsville Boys Club ; Boys -- Societies and clubs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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: Social welfare: Boys clubs: Brownsville: I