Dogpatch, or Brooklyn?
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| Title: | Dogpatch, or Brooklyn? |
| Description: | Mother looking down at two daughters seated on stoop of dilapidated wooden house, built as temporary housing for veterans at Linden Boulevard and Vermont Street; overgrown yard in foregound. Caption on verso: "Dogpatch, or Brooklyn?: Mrs. Virginia Miranda, with daughters Denise, 2, and Alma, 5, poses at entrance of shanty dwelling in Linden Houses veterans' project. In this building, and in others even more dilapidated, scores of veterans' families are preparing to face another winter." |
| Date: | 1952 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) East New York (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Lambert, Al. |
| More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Nov. 28, 1952; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Public housing Veterans Mother and child Poor families |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
| ID: | HOUS 0137 |
