Brooklyn Baby parade
One hundred years ago today … Brooklyn’s Standard Union featured a two-page spread of photos of Brooklyn infants and children. Some of the photos were taken during a “baby parade” at Coney Island’s Mardi Gras that we reported about on September 20.
Brooklyn Standard Union, 3 October 1920, p.2. Chronicling America.
Is it strange that for several of the pictures below, the paper listed the child’s address?
Brooklyn Standard Union, 3 October 1920, p.3. Chronicling America.
Oddly enough, all of the children, both pages of them, seem to be white.
wRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, OCTOBER 3, 2020.
TAGS: children, Brooklyn, journalism, photography