For a safer courthouse

For a safer courthouse
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Title: For a safer courthouse
Description:

Five men in suits, probably in court building at 120 Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn Heights, examining blueprint held against wall. Caption: "FOR A SAFER COURTHOUSE: Engineers from the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Works schedule changes in blueprints of Brooklyn's 'sieve-like' Central Courts Building while Judge Leibowitz, second from right, indicates what's wrong with the structure."

Date: 1946
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: May 17, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo."
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Government
Subject: Courthouses
Blueprints
Judges
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: GOVT 0051