About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1002
  • TitleNot a pretty picture
  • SummaryAfrican American boy in cap and overcoat holding rope in left hand and sitting on stoop next to oveflowing garbage can and carboard box. Caption: "Not a pretty picture -- Charges that Brooklyn was littered with filth prompted fact-finding tour by Brooklyn Eagle columnist Robert M. Grannis and Sanitation Commissioner Andrew Mulrain. . . . Some of the things they found were littered streets, such as Washington [i.e., Fort Greene] Park . . . between Myrtle and Willoughby Aves . . . and overflowing, uncovered refuse cans . . . which are required by law to be covered with lids."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: May 7, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. On verso: "Washington Park at Cumberland St., bet. Myrtle & Willoughby Ave." Retouched.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLitter (Trash) ; Refuse and refuse disposal ; African American children
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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: Fort Greene: Washington Park