Ruth Naniro and Ronnie Bennett

Ruth Naniro and Ronnie Bennett
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Title: Ruth Naniro and Ronnie Bennett
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Caption: "Ruth Naniro and Ronnie Bennett [with ten other students around them] 'shine' the 'Big Apple' at the senior prom of the Manual Training High School in the Hotel Bossert and throw in a bit of the 'shag'..." The school, located at 237 Seventh Avenue, changed its name in 1960 to John Jay High School, and in 2001 the name changed again to Secondary School for Law Journalism and Research.

Date: 1938
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 29/38.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Manual Training High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Dancing
Proms
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 1065