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  • Call NumberGOVT_0107
  • TitleFirst through the doors
  • SummaryGroup of smiling and laughing dignitaries standing at entrance to courthouse at 283 Adams Street (subsequently rebuilt as a public high school). Caption: "First through the doors: John Warren Hill, Presiding Justice of the Domestic Relations Court, left, points the way for the initial group to tour the new Domestic Relations Court, nearing completion at Adams and Johnson Adams Sts. In the party are Mrs. Harvey O. Dobson, the Rev. John Emerson Zeiter of the Hanson Place Central Methodist Church, Clarence Leeds, Chief Probation Officer of the Court; the Rev. Martin Paul Luther of the New Utrecht Refomed Church, Mrs. Zeiter, president of the N. Y. State Council of Church Women and Dr. Viginia H. Johnson, Protestant Consultant of Brooklyn Children's Court . . . ".
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 12, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCourthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Government: Judiciary: Domestic Relations