Title: | Up from Nanny Goat Park |
Description: | Caption: "Up from Nanny Goat Park--The kids who used to inhabit Brownsville's garbage-strewn lots and fought gang wars with bottles, bricks, and weapons found in a junk heap called Nanny Goat Park, now have a $1,500,000 clubhouse with a modern gymnasium and $150,000 swimming pool." Image includes five boys who appear to be playing stickball. |
Date: | 1953 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Nov. 29, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Social Welfare [3]
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Subject: |
Boys [4] Litter (Trash) [5] |
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: | SWEL 0025 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/bc80b4534373c34f35d9ed67a0e35163&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Social+Welfare
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Boys
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Litter (Trash)