About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0133
  • TitleA helping foot
  • SummaryTwo boys with boxing gloves being weighed on scale by smiling man. Caption: "A helping foot: Nine-year-old Butch Castro, center, tries to add a little to Jonathan Tabb's poundage as Deputy State Athletic Commissioner Jack Duberstein weighs in the 8-year-old contestant for Friday midget bouts at the Navy Yard Boys Club, 195 York St. . . ."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped : Dec. 15, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBoys -- Societies and clubs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Boxing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Navy Yard: Children: Boxing