About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0142
  • TitlePassive resistance
  • SummaryThree mothers standing with five children outside apartment buiding in Manhattan Beach; man looking off to side at left. Caption on verso: "Passive Resistance: Dwellers in Manhattan Beach veterans' housing project oppose demolition of project's abandoned buildings with their eyes only, after final failure of housewives' demonstration which halted work until today. Extra police on duty warned women arrest would follow any further attempt to interfere with laborers."
  • Date1953
  • 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: Aug. 10, 1953; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMother and child -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Beach (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: Housing: Manhattan Beach: Veterans Project