About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0649
  • TitleToddlers seated on table and playing with a telephone.
  • SummaryPortrait of two toddlers, Lothar Van Doon seated on a table and Allonia using a rotary telephone. The photo is heavily retouched: the image of Lothar in the portrait has been extracted from another photograph in our collection, OSOS_0647. Summary derived from inscription on back.
  • Date[between 1950 and 1959]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographsgroup portraitsretouching
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original photograph, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 3, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Linda Burke Galloway at Boys and Girls High School. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectAfrican American children ; Marcy Houses (New York, N.Y.) ; Public housing
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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