About This Item

  • Call NumberGOVT_0100_2
  • TitleCourtroom scene
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0100), some of which may also be described in this new record; Overhead view of woman at desk in crowded, nondescript office looking up at six or seven people (backs to camera) standing before her; stenographer and four other men at right. Caption on verso: "Courtroom Scene: Justice Justine Wise Polier presiding over a case in a multi-purpose courtroom of the Family Division of the Brooklyn Domestic Relations Court." Courthouse stood at 283 Adams Street; subsequently rebuilt as a public high school.
  • Date1954
  • 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: Dec. 8, 1950; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. GOVT 0100: retouched; grease pencil cropping marks; GOVT 0100_2: cropped version.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPolier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987 ; Judges -- New York (State) -- New York ; Courthouses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown 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: Government: Judiciary: Domestic Relations