Title: | [Worker painting courthouse dome] |
Description: | Worker in harness painting dome of neo-classical Kings County Courthouse on Joralemon and Fulton Streets (subsequently demolished); three other workers with paint brushes standing on rooftop in left foreground; tops of skyscrapers on Court Street, including cupola of Borough Hall, in background. Caption: "WPA workmen have turned Supreme Courthouse dome into shining white beacon for the Borough Hall section. This was first painting job on dome in seven years." |
Date: | 1935 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 23/35. Grease pencil cropping marks; circle drawn over worker on dome. |
Collection: | Government [4]
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Subject: |
United States. Work Projects Administration. [5] Painters, Industrial [6] Courthouses [7] Domes [8] Lost architecture [9] |
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: | GOVT 0185 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/037a243e4ed7285e54e4751c027de93a&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Downtown+Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Government
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/u/United States. Work Projects Administration.
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Painters, Industrial
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Courthouses
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/d/Domes
[9] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture