About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0047
  • TitleHand tennis
  • SummaryThree young women and one young man playing net game ("hand tennis) on street with many spectators. Row of brownstone apartment houses in background.
  • Date1935
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately half of image appears to be missing. On verso: date inscribed: July 19/35. On verso: "What some residents of Bainbridge St. object to. Children playing hand tennis." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectBrownstone houses ; Outdoor games ; Paddle tennis ; Spectators [lctgm] ; Tennis
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Bed. Stuy.: Neighborhoods