About This Item
- Call NumberHOUS_0053
- TitleVictims of housing mess
- SummaryMother holding baby in her lap; older boy at her side; refrigerator and kitchen applicances in background. Caption on verso: "Victims of Housing Mess: Mrs. Gertrude Strat and her two children, Monte, 1, and Elliott, 3, as they waited in fear of eviction from their one-room 'home' at 388 Washington Ave. for non-payment of rent. The baby, sick, was in no condition to be moved, according to a doctor."
- Date1950
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 12, 1950; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectApartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Poor families -- New York (State) -- New York ; Eviction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mother and child -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Clinton Hill (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: Housing: Evictions