Brooklyn: 5th Street (West) - 8th Street Sixth Avenue, at the N. E. corner of Eighth Street, showing Public School No. 39. June 14, 1940 P. L. Sperr

School building program Caption: "School building program--The Board of Education began its postwar building program when ground was broken for the addition to Public School 35 at Decatur St. and Lewis Ave. yesterday. City officials at ceremony were, left to right, Borough President John Cashmore, Andrew G. Clauson, president of the Board of Education, and Mayor William O'Dwyer. The new structure will have 22 classrooms;" policeman and three other men partially visible in background.

New educational horizons Caption: "New educational horizons--Participating in the formal opening of the new Curriculum Center of School Districts 26 and 28 at Public School 39, 6th Ave. and 8th St., are, left to right, Mrs. Ida B. Sternlieb, principal of Public School 169, chairman district curriculum committee, Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, Mary V. Lyons, District Curriculum Co-ordinator, Assistant Superintendent of Schools John B. King, and Arthur Levitt, president of the Board." Ms. Sternlieb is holding a puppet and Ms. Lyons and Mr. King are holding a large three-ring notebook.

Brooklyn 22, P.S. 39 (Henry Bristow), 417 6th Ave; Jerry Spearman, Photographer