| Title: | Water, boy! |
| Description: | Children playing in spray of water from fire hydrant on plaza in front of housing project. Caption on verso: "Water, Boy!: Employing classic means of cooling off, kids at Fort Greene Houses romp in ecstasy as cool, cool H20 issues from a friendly hydrant. One of biggest police problems during yesterday's 99-degree scorcher was turning off errant hydrants without getting their uniforms drenched -- as if they would mind!" |
| Date: | 1953 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| Creator: | Geller, Jules. |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Sep. 3, 1953; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing [4]
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| Subject: |
Hydrants [5] Public housing [6] Children playing outdoors [7] |
| 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 0067 |