About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0273
  • TitleCleanup boosters
  • SummaryCaption: "Cleanup boosters--A group of Brownsville youngsters begin own campaign to tidy up streets, raising placards in appeal for neighborhood cooperation ... More than 30 public school children and members of Boy Scout and Cub troops paraded up and down Amboy St., from East New York Ave. to Blake Ave;" three garbage cans in left foreground and several parked (one moving) automobiles in background.
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 8, 1949. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCivic improvement ; School children
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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: Brownsville: General