About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0996
  • TitleAll aboard
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (SCHL 1012), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption (0996): "All aboard--Lafayette High School students throng 25th Avenue terminal of Bay Ridge Avenue bus line yesterday, waiting to be taken home. Ordinarily many of these students would have used privately operated bus lines that joined six others in 'striking' in protest against 'police harassment'." Caption (1012): "Time is running out--Lafayette High School students flock aboard one of the seven independent borough bus lines that will be pushed off the road at the end of June because of Board of Estimate's refusal to grant them a franchise ..." The school is located at 2630 Benson Avenue.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; on versos: dates stamped: Mar. 16 and 24, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; 0996: photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0996.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBuses -- New York (State) -- New York ; High school students -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)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: High schools: Lafayette