About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0085
  • TitlePioneer methods
  • SummaryMother playfully pouring water over the head of her naked daughter, who reacts with grimace, in the kitchen of their apartment in housing project north of Fort Greene Park. Caption on verso: "Pioneer Methods of cooling off are employed by Mrs. Martha Leddick of 25 Monument Walk, who empties the family percolator over the hot and bothered head of 2-year-old daughter Elizabeth. Water service was restored to project at 11 p.m. after plumbers were dispatched there by New York City Housing Authority."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep. 3, 1953; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMother and child -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Housing: Fort Greene