[Workers and gas lamp]
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| Title: | [Workers and gas lamp] |
| Description: | Worker with hammer standing on column of ruined gas lamp; second worker with blow torch looking up at him; several men observing work in progress; arched portal of courthouse building (no longer extant) in left background. Caption on verso: "Taking down what is believed to be the last of the old gas lamp street lights in Brooklyn in front of the old Adams St. Courthouse in Adams St., near Myrtle Ave." |
| Date: | 1938 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Brooklyn daily eagle. |
| More Details: |
Title supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: July 14/38; "Eagle Staff Photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Government
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| Subject: |
Street lighting Blue collar workers Public buildings Lost architecture |
| 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 0005 |
