Title: | Aerial view of Brownsville |
Description: | Aerial view of large section of Brownsville, with white rectangular lines at top showing borders of eventual housing project; within borders two sections marked off as "Park" and one section marked off as "New Recreation Area." Caption on verso: "Second Brooklyn project is located around Betsy Head Park in the Brownsville section (above). The great majority of the buildings scheduled to be demolished are old-law tenements." |
Date: | 1938 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brownsville (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
On verso: date inscribed: Nov. 23/38. Title supplied by cataloger. Notations on recto. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Public housing [5] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Aerial photographs. |
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 0026 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/15900c8fee08cfb0c340f5e4998d277e&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brownsville+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing