About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0964
  • TitleHalloween shenanigans
  • SummaryIn bare room with pipes overhead, three customed adults stand before racially mixed group of fifteen partially customed children (nine sitting on floor, six standing). Caption: "Halloween shenanigans -- Far from terror-stricken by the traditional Halloween figures, children at the Fort Green Play School party seem happily intrigued by the ghost, the witch and pumpkin-holding gypsy, who were at hand to entertain. The festivities took place yesterday at the school, 51 Monument Walk."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Nov. 1, 1949; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHalloween ; Halloween costumes ; School children
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene: Fort Greene Play School