About This Item


  • Call NumberOSOS_0702
  • TitleGroup of women attending event in courtyard of apartment complex.
  • SummaryMothers and daughters of the Marcy Projects pose for a photo in a coutyard on Marcy Day, 2010. Summary derived from inscription on back.
  • Date2010
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • Genrecolor photographsgroup portraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original photograph, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 3, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Linda Burke Galloway at Boys and Girls High School. 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.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectAfrican American women ; Mothers and daughters ; Marcy Houses (New York, N.Y.) ; Public housing
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.