About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2317
  • TitleWish you were here?
  • SummaryCaption: "Wish you were here?--[Five] Red Hook kids [and one woman holding baby] escape the heat under showers at Coffey Park, Pioneer and Richards Sts. There are 110 wading pools and showers for children in Brooklyn."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 27, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChildren ; Heat waves (Meteorology)
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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: Red Hook: Neighborhoods