Reaching skyward

Reaching skyward
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Title: Reaching skyward
Description:

View of construction site with two workers, one climbing girder near top, the other holding girder at base; apartment buildings in background. Caption on verso: "Reaching Skyward: Workmen set in place the first steel girders of Concord Village at the giant develpment at Tillary and Adams Sts. Three of the 15-story apartment buildings are scheduled to be completed at the end of this year."

Date: 1950
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: May 25, 1950; "Eagle Staff photo."
Title from caption on verso.
Grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Housing
Subject: Building construction
Construction workers
Public housing
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 0037