Title: | Going Up |
Description: | Workers assembling skeleton of Quonset hut (intended as temporary housing for veterans) on lot bounded by Rockaway Parkway, East 102nd Street, and Seaview Avenue; wooden boards and other construction material in foreground; telephone wires and other houses in background. Caption on verso: "Going Up: Two families will be accommodated in each of 1,652 Quonset huts like this. It is made of steel, wood and prefabricated materials." |
Date: | 1946 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Canarsie (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 28, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Quonset huts [5] Veterans [6] Public housing [7] Building construction [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 0115 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/0dca0dc222a95b90f17c6a575e0ac8cf&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Canarsie+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/q/Quonset huts
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/v/Veterans
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building construction