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