About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2285
  • TitleTot's death arouses residents
  • SummaryCaption: "Tot's death arouses residents--[Close up of] Sunset Park residents [holding three large signs] mob 50th St. at the corner of 2d Ave. to demand that the thoroughfare be turned into a play street following the death of James Karl, 3, of 5011 3d Ave., crushed to death beneath the rear wheel of a coal truck yesterday. The youngest of six children, he was killed when he fell from the side of the truck as he was 'hitching a ride' along 50th St."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Sep[t] 28, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCrowds ; Signs and signboards
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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: Sunset Park: Neighborhoods