| Title: | Eagle spurs cleanup action |
| Description: | Crew of workmen with rakes cleaning beach; two trash receptacles, three women sitting on beach in left foreground, and jetty in background. Caption: "Eagle spurs cleanup action--Informed by the Brooklyn Eagle of complaints of unsanitary conditions at Coney Island beach, Mayor O'Dwyer immediately ordered Park Department officials to begin a cleanup compaign. An emergency detail is shown hand-raking the beach for litter at Stillwell late yesterday." |
| 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. 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 0069 |