Courtroom scene

Courtroom scene
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Title: Courtroom scene
Description:

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.

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Dec. 8, 1950; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Government
Subject: Polier, Justine Wise, 1903-1987.
Judges
Courthouses
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: GOVT 0100