About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_1243
  • TitleSpirits soar on liberation day
  • SummaryCaption: "Spirits soar on liberation day--After 191 days of homework, examinations, report cards, teachers and textbooks, first-graders at P. S. 5 [located at Tillary Street and Bridge Street] report for the last 'shape-up' of school year and follow their teacher, Mary Cox, to freedom. Brooklyn streets echoed with jubilant shouts of youngsters yesterday when the school bell sounded for the last time until Sept. 14."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 1, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic School 5 (New York, N.Y.) ; School children -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Schools: Public: P.S. #5