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[Central Courts Building at 120 Schermerhorn Street in early stage of construction]

[Central Courts Building at 120 Schermerhorn Street in early stage of construction]
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Title: [Central Courts Building at 120 Schermerhorn Street in early stage of construction]
Description:

Aerial view of Renaissance-style court building in Brooklyn Heights; most of building showing structural armature except for limestone facing on lower floors; scaffolding at ground floor; construction workers on open fifth floor; automobiles, construction shed, and bystanders in foreground.
Date: 1931
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3]
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 4/31.
Retouched.
Collection: Government [4]
Subject: Courthouses [5]
Building construction [6]
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Aerial views.
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: GOVT 0039
 
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[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building construction