Where 'miracle' saved boy
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| Title: | Where 'miracle' saved boy |
| Description: | View of apartment tower in housing project near Brooklyn Navy Yard, with dotted line superimposed on surface. Caption on verso: "Where 'Miracle' Saved Boy: Broken line shows flight path where Frederick Field, 11, plunged from ninth floor apartment, landing on grass outside 237 Nassau St., Farragut Houses. His skull was fractured but Cumberland Hospital doctors say he is improving." |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Kruh, Johnny. |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Oct. 7, 1954; "Eagle staff photo by John Kruh." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Public housing Falls (Accidents) |
| 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: | HOUS 0061 |
