About This Item
- TitleHousing for vets
- Call NumberHOUS_0150
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0152), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of workers at construction site of renovated or nearly completed bungalow-like buildings intended as temporary housing for veterans in Manhattan Beach; 0150 shows a row of small houses with clusters of workers in front; 0152 shows one house (primarily), with two workers (one measuring board) before it; both images show icy ground and bare bushes in foreground. Caption on verso of 0150: "Housing for Vets: Workers are busy at Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Station, creating apartments for veterans and families in former bungalows and barracks. First apartments should be ready in February."
- Date1946
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0150. On verso of 0150: date stamped: Jan. 29, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks on 0150.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBuilding construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Veterans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Beach (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.