About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0702
  • TitleLearning to drive backwards
  • SummaryCaption: "Learning to drive backwards in one of 15 stationary cars used with the Aetna Drivotrainer, a new classroom driver training device introduced Tuesday (February 24) in the New York City school system [at Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades at Nassau Avenue and Bedford Avenue], Jane Cobb of Woodrow Wilson High School uses mirror to see highway shown on movie screen at the front of classroom the same as it would appear through the rear window of an automobile in normal driving. ..."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • SubjectBrooklyn High School of Automotive Trades (New York, N.Y.) ; Automobile driver education -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Schools: Public: High schools: Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades