Going Up
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| Title: | Going Up |
| Description: | Workers assembling skeleton of Quonset hut (intended as temporary housing for veterans) on lot bounded by Rockaway Parkway, East 102nd Street, and Seaview Avenue; wooden boards and other construction material in foreground; telephone wires and other houses in background. Caption on verso: "Going Up: Two families will be accommodated in each of 1,652 Quonset huts like this. It is made of steel, wood and prefabricated materials." |
| Date: | 1946 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Canarsie (New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
| More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Feb. 28, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Housing
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| Subject: |
Quonset huts Veterans Public housing Building construction |
| 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 0115 |
