About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2040
  • TitleNo ceiling on this rent
  • SummaryCaption: "No ceiling on this rent--Puerto Rican mother points out fallen section of ceiling in three-family Williamsburg house whose overall condition loosely corresponds to plight of this room. Note multiple beds [bunk beds on far right with cardboard box and blanket on top bed and baby girl sucking on pacifier on bottom bed] which comprise living room furniture;".
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Nov, 30, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBedrooms ; Puerto Ricans ; Slums
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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: Williamsburg: Housing: Interior