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[Quonset huts in Canarsie]

[Quonset huts in Canarsie]
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Title: [Quonset huts in Canarsie]
Description:

Quonset huts, on lot bounded by Rockaway Parkway, East 102nd Street, and Seaview Avenue, built as temporary housing for veterans; shows man holding door of hut open for Governor Thomas Dewey and other dignitaries on inspection tour.
Date: 1946
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Canarsie (New York, N.Y.) [3]
More Details: Title supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Housing [4]
Subject: Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971. [5]
Quonset huts [6]
Veterans [7]
Public housing [8]
Municipal officials and employees [9]
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 0114
 
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[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Canarsie+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Housing
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/d/Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/q/Quonset huts
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/v/Veterans
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Public housing
[9] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/m/Municipal officials and employees