About This Item

  • Title$1,000,000 project
  • Call NumberTEMP_0065
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "$1,000,000 project: Rabbi Joseph Miller, spiritual leader of Congregation Shaare Torah, 2252 Bedford Ave., looks on as steam shovel takes first bite out of ground at Albemarle Road and E. 21st St., where $1,000,000 Greater Shaare Torah and Community Center will be erected."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Oct. 1, 1949. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSteam shovels ; Construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.