Spirits soar on liberation day

Spirits soar on liberation day
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Title: Spirits soar on liberation day
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Caption: "Spirits soar on liberation day--After 191 days of homework, examinations, report cards, teachers and textbooks, first-graders at P. S. 5 [located at Tillary Street and Bridge Street] report for the last 'shape-up' of school year and follow their teacher, Mary Cox, to freedom. Brooklyn streets echoed with jubilant shouts of youngsters yesterday when the school bell sounded for the last time until Sept. 14."

Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Kruh, Johnny, photographer.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks.
On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 1, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Public School 5 (New York, N.Y.)
School children
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 1243