Save our homes

Save our homes
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Title: Save our homes
Description:

Caption: "Save our homes--The 'junior auxiliary' of the Kensington Property Owners Association, which is fighting to save their homes condemned to make way for Junior High School 62, help raise funds for the legal fray by conducting a white elephant sale [with two signs, "White elephant sale" and "To help save our homes"] at Cortelyou Road and E. 7th St. Richard Wasserman, 5, of 579 E. 7th St., purchases an item from Mary Lou Justus, 13, of 558 E. 7th St., while Rose Marie Cuomo, 13, of 556 E. 7th St., center, and Jacqueline Graynor, 13, of 503 E. 7th St., witness the transaction."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Lambert, Al, photographer.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date stamped: Aug. 26, 1954; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Fund raising
Rummage sales
Secondhand sales
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: SCHL 1202