About This Item

  • Call NumberTRAN_0320
  • TitleVictorious crusaders
  • SummaryCaption: "Victorious crusaders--Throng of Brooklyn residents [carrying signs and banners] storms bastions of City Hall to protest construction of elevated lines on Utica and Nostrand Aves.They ... won the battle when Mayor Impellitteri promised them the Board of Estimate would not approve construction of 'L's in borough."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: caption stamped: Sep[t] 18, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDemonstrations -- New York (State) -- New York ; Signs and signboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)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: Subways: Els and inclines: Nostrand and Utica El (proposed)