About This Item

  • TitleWPA larvacide squads
  • Call NumberNEIG_0352
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Salvaged paving blocks from city streets being used [by two men back to camera] to line ditches dug by WPA larvacide squads in sections of Canarsie."
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 5 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: Aug. 7/38. Retouched. Small, rectangular piece missing from lower right. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectUnited States. Works Progress Administration ; Ditches -- New York (State) -- New York ; Laborers -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceCanarsie (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.