The Scrub Team

The Scrub Team
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Title: The Scrub Team
Description:

Four children scrubbing empty wading pool with brushes, mops, and brooms. Caption: "The Scrub Team: Youngsters at the Infants Home of Brooklyn help get their blue-tile wading pool, adjacent to the institution at 1358 56th St., in shape for the hot summer months. Going through the clean-up routine are, left to right, Peter, 4; Fannie, 5, and Melody, 5." (Boy at left, with "X" over face, would have been cropped out of photo.)

Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Sharp, Jay.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Jun. 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Social Welfare
Subject: Orphans
Orphanages
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 0520