Title: | Anti-filth brigade |
Description: | Crew of workmen with shovels and rakes cleaning beach; several trash receptacles. Caption: "Anti-filth brigade--Augmented squads of Park Department employes [sic] begin cleanup maneuver at Coney Island beach. ... More than 100 men were added to the regular maintenance staff to keep the beach in a sanitary condition." |
Date: | 1946 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks. On verso; date stamped: Jul[y] 12, 1946. Slightly damaged in upper right. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Coney Island [4]
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Subject: |
Beaches [5] Sanitation [6] |
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: | CONE 0070 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/a1849bb554001f6924d639980d015612&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Coney+Island+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Coney+Island
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Beaches
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Sanitation