Entering a New Era of Multimedia - Lehman College

The vintage photographs date from the early decades of the
twentieth century and came to Lehman through a Bronx oral history
project, housed in the Library’s Bronx Institute Archives. The
contemporary images were produced by photographer Georgeen
Comerford and span 1983 to 1986. Comerford, who is currently
an associate professor of art at Brooklyn College, reproduced
eighteen vintage children’s images that spanned the period
1895–1943. These images came largely from family photograph
albums loaned by interviewees participating in the Institute’s oral
history project. Comerford also created forty of her own contem-
Above left: Children Playing. 1971. At the corner of Shakespeare
Avenue and 170th Street. Above center: Boy on
Sculpture. 1983. Atop one of Adolph A. Weinman’s four
sculptures at the Bronx County Courthouse.
Children in a Playground. 1985.
Children doing backflips on
playground equipment in the
Longwood-Foxhurst area.
porary photographs from 1971–1985. Working with some three
dozen Bronx organizations, as well as directly with local parents
she met in public places, she secured permission to photograph
her subjects for inclusion in this project.
This project was funded by a $10,000 grant from the Metropolitan
New York Library Council (METRO) through the New York State
Regional Bibliographic Databases Program.
To view the complete project, visit www.lehman.edu/library/
childhood-bronx/background.htm
Above: Waiting for the IRT. 1982.
Alone in his thoughts, a boy waits
at the Yankee Stadium station.
Below: A Kiss for the Baby. 1985.
A father kisses his toddler daughter
in the homeless shelter at
Roberto Clemente State Park.
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