About This Item
- Call NumberSWEL_0025
- TitleUp from Nanny Goat Park
- SummaryCaption: "Up from Nanny Goat Park--The kids who used to inhabit Brownsville's garbage-strewn lots and fought gang wars with bottles, bricks, and weapons found in a junk heap called Nanny Goat Park, now have a $1,500,000 clubhouse with a modern gymnasium and $150,000 swimming pool." Image includes five boys who appear to be playing stickball.
- Date1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 29, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBoys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Litter (Trash) -- 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: Brownsville: I