Lights slated to go off in veterans' project
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| Title: | Lights slated to go off in veterans' project |
| Description: | Mother seated in armchair between her husband and son, who wear bed clothes and hold candles and candlesticks; mother reading magazine and wearing dress with pearl necklace. Caption on verso: "Lights Slated To Go Off In Veterans' Projects: In the Manhattan Beach Housing Project, where utilities were to be cut off at 12:01 a.m., Mrs. Rose Anne Friedman was still making good use of the electricity long past midnight. Her husband, David J., and son, Ira, are prepared with candles. The same situation prevails at the Marine Park Veterans Housing Project, where up to daybreak the edict had not taken effect as yet." |
| Date: | 1953 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | McNamara, C. E. |
| More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 1, 1953; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Veterans Public housing 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 0139 |
