Rebecca Lepkoff, the great photographer who died Aug. 17 at 98, famously captured the street life of her native Lower East Side in the 1940s and ’50s. At left, in a game of kick the can, “prisoners” who were tagged and in “jail” are liberated as a boy kicks the can. The wall is covered with “Vote Yes — Rabin — Supreme Court” posters, perhaps referring to then-Assemblymember Samuel Rabin, who was elected to the bench in 1954 and served as a judge until 1981. At right, children scale and play around in a snow mound.
