About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0052
  • TitleCleaning up job
  • SummaryWoman holds, and Black man attaches, sign ("A clean block is a good block") to iron fence; tools on pavement in foreground; row of apartment houses in left background; large tree in right background. Caption: "Cleaning up job--Homer Johnston, 706 MacDonough [sic] St. fastens sign of civic pride to fence in front of 656 MacDonough St. with assist from Mrs. Louis Ruggiero, a resident of latter address. He's president and she is assistant secretary of the 600 MacDonough Association, which is promoting the clean-up campaign." (Street name is really McDonough Street.).
  • Date1953
  • 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: caption stamped: May 17, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectApartment houses ; City blocks
  • 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.: Organizations