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Junior cleanup corps

Caption: "Junior cleanup corps--The first contingent of 1,500 teenage members of the Brownsville Boys Club are inducted as Sanitation Department aides to help clean Brooklyn streets. Deputy Sanitation Commissioner Harry Serper, right, swears in Jerry Tobin, 10, as other club members await their turn at department headquarters. At left is Abe Stark, chairman of the club's board of governors."

IMAGE DATE1947
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