Courtroom scene

Image represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0100), some of which may also be described in this new record; Overhead view of woman at desk in crowded, nondescript office looking up at six or seven people (backs to camera) standing before her; stenographer and four other men at right. Caption on verso: "Courtroom Scene: Justice Justine Wise Polier presiding over a case in a multi-purpose courtroom of the Family Division of the Brooklyn Domestic Relations Court." Courthouse stood at 283 Adams Street; subsequently rebuilt as a public high school.