Title: | View |
Description: | View of six-story apartment buildings nearing completion in housing project north of Fort Greene Park; construction worker with back to camera in center foreground; construction equipment and debris around him; elevated subway track and portion of Fort Greene Park with Prison Ships Martyrs Monument in background. Caption on verso: "View: The greenery of Fort Greene Park and the shaft of the historic monument rising above them are visible from the windows of many of the apartments in the project." |
Date: | 1942 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
On verso: date stamped: Aug. 16, 1942. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Public housing [5] Apartment houses [6] Building construction [7] Construction workers [8] |
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 0083 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/86c665fb80ce9b8dd5aeb32398e46c97&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Fort+Greene+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Apartment houses
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building construction
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Construction workers