About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0701
  • TitleNew York City school officials
  • SummaryCaption: "New York City school officials inspect revolutionary new technique of providing 'behind-the-wheel' driver training in the classroom for 15 students at a time on the Aetna Drivotrainer which was introduced for the first time in the nation by the New York [City] Board of Education Tuesday (February 24) at the Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades [located at Nassau Avenue and Bedford Avenue]. Here Stanley F. Withe, left, manager of the public education department of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, which developed the Drivotrainer, discusses its operation with Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, center, Associate Superintendent C. Frederick Pertsch, seated, and Richard J. O'Connor, right, supervisor of driver education in the New York schools."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • SubjectBrooklyn High School of Automotive Trades (New York, N.Y.) ; Automobile driver education -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades