Answer to delinquency

Answer to delinquency
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Title: Answer to delinquency
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Caption: "Answer to delinquency--Youngsters at Colony House, 297 Dean St., offer three interested observers first-hand information as to how they spend their spare time. The three gentlemen, left to right, are Arthur Levitt, Brooklyn member of Board of Education; J. Bertram Wegman, president of Youth United, and Presiding Justice John Warren Hill of Domestic Relations Court who visited the settlement as part of a effort to coordinate citywide delinquency prevention. The youngsters are, left to right, Patricia Boyle, 14, of 55 5th Ave., standing; Louis Sams, 9, of 322 Bergen St. [holding ball], Tony Fiorello, 15, of 449 State St. [holding basesball bat and glove] and Joyce McIntyre, 8, of 467 Pacific St." Image includes pictorial display with caption, "Youth United for better citizens of tomorrow."

Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Sharp, Jay, photographer.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks.
On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 12, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Social Welfare
Subject: Colony House (New York, N.Y.)
Settlements
Social settlements
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
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 0693