About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0387
  • TitleTwo boys, one holding a flag, standing outside store.
  • SummaryJunior (on left, no last name given) and Irwin Silver outside of Jack's Candy Store, Irwin's family's business, located at 859 Green Avenue / 144 Stuyvesant Avenue. Embassy cigarette advertisements in window.
  • Date[1945?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsgroup portraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph, 2 x 3 inches, digitized on January 30, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Paula Silver at Park Slope Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectFlags ; Advertising--Cigarettes ; African Americans ; Stores, Retail
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.