About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0030
  • TitleCaution corner
  • SummaryDilapidated room with woman and small boy on left and wall basin and dresser on right. Caption: "Caution corner--Puerto Rican mother warns child away from corner where floor is broken away in Bedford Stuyvesant house. In spite of living conditions like this, Puerto Ricans feel they are better off here than on their native island."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 3, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Mother with child is Mrs. Angela Mercado and her 3 yr. old Angel." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSlums ; Tenement houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)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: Bed. Stuy.: Housing