About This Item

  • Call NumberPARK_0425
  • TitleTripping the light fantastic
  • SummaryCaption: "Tripping the light fantastic--A roped-off meadow in Prospect Park became a dance floor for 3,500 Brooklyn public school youngsters who participated in the 45th annual Park Fete of the Girls' Branch, Public School Athletic League, yesterday. In time to the music of the boys' band of Erasmus Hall High School, front, left to right, June Einstein, 194 Tapscott St., and her partner, Sandra Sher, 60 Amboy St., compete with partners, left to right, Sandra Kellman 83 Legion St., and Gail Winters, 226 Legion St., in executing the steps of the Fada Blanquita, a Spanish folk dance. All are 10-year-old students at P. S. 156. ..."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFolk dancing, Spanish -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect 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: Parks: Prospect Park: Dance festival