Title: | Lights Out for Project Veterans |
Description: | Mother attending to crying baby on bed; four other children standing at bedside. Caption on verso: "Lights Out for Project Veterans: With electricity turned off by State officials who are trying to close Manhattan Beach Veterans Housing Project, Mrs. Louise Clark, wife of a fire lieutenant, comforts her family. Baby in bed is week-old Barbara Marie. Holding candle is Tommy, 14, while looking on are Helen, 3; Marylou, 10, and Joe, 13. Clarks have two more sons; say finding new apartment for big family is difficult." |
Date: | 1953 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | McNamara, C. E. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 2, 1953; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
Collection: | Housing [4]
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Subject: |
Public housing [5] Apartment dwellers [6] Families [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 0141 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/3a4fa678de9ea844db8a0f1475dc4d2e&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Manhattan+Beach+%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 dwellers
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Families