HOUS 0096 Click for larger image.
HOUS 0096 Click for larger image.
Title Literary circle [picture] / [Johnny] Kruh.
Author Kruh, Johnny.
Publication [Place of publication not identified] : [Brooklyn Eagle], 1952.
Description 1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
8 x 10 in.
Call # HOUS 0096
Note On verso: date stamped: Jan. 20, 1952; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Summary Teacher sitting on floor showing picture book to six children in nursery school at housing project (Glenwood Houses) at or near 1660 Ralph Avenue; partial view of other student and adult in right background. Caption on verso: "Literary Circle: Florence Gottedenkes, teacher in the model nursery school, presides at a literary hour above as she reads and explains book to interested circle. No attempt is made at the school to give sprouts head start on book learning. Emphasis is placed instead on creative play."
Cite As: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Indexes Folder: Housing: Glenwood Houses
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Subject Children -- New York (State) -- New York.
Books and reading -- New York (State) -- New York.
Nursery schools -- New York (State) -- New York.
Preschool teachers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
gelatin silver prints.
photographic prints.

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