About This Item
- TitleBrooklyn low-rent project
- Call NumberHOUS_0058
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0062, HOUS 0063), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three identical views (except for cropping marks) of architectural rendering of housing project. Caption on verso of 0058: "Brooklyn Low-Rent Project: Architect's drawing of Farragut Houses, 1,400-family project to be built by the City Housing Authority just west of Brooklyn Navy Yard. In foreground is a section of Brooklyn-Queens Connecting Highway, now under construction."
- Date1947
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
- NoteOn verso of 0058: date stamped: Jul. 26, 1947; on versos of 0062 and 0063; New York City Housing Authority stamp. Title from caption on verso of 0058. On recto (lower right): "Farragut Houses, Brooklyn, N.Y., New York City Housing Authority." 0058 and 0063 with grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorNew York City Housing Authority
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (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.