Title: | Reaching skyward |
Description: | View of construction site with two workers, one climbing girder near top, the other holding girder at base; apartment buildings in background. Caption on verso: "Reaching Skyward: Workmen set in place the first steel girders of Concord Village at the giant develpment at Tillary and Adams Sts. Three of the 15-story apartment buildings are scheduled to be completed at the end of this year." |
Date: | 1950 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: May 25, 1950; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Building construction [5] Construction workers [6] Public housing [7] |
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 0037 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/a7764f76a7dc1347dce507a2795fd619&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building construction
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing