About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0521
  • TitleThe Spic and Span Club
  • SummaryFour children with mops, buckets, and brooms, cleaning empty wading pool at orphanage at 1358 56th St. Caption: "The Spic and Span Club: The Spic and Span Club of the Infants Home of Brooklyn wants to wade where the wading is clean. And so, armed with brooms, hoses, vacuum cleaners, etc., the members went to work on the wading pool. . . ."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun. 27, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectOrphans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (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: Social Welfare: Orphanages: Infants Home of Brooklyn: Children