About This Item
- TitleHomes for 1,141 families
- Call NumberHOUS_0107
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0111), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architectural rendering of housing project; images indentical except for size and tonality: 0107, 5 x 8 in; 0111, 8 x 10 in. Caption on verso of 0107: "Homes for 1,141 Families: Edmond B. Butler, chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, has announced plans are complete for another low-rent project, Gowanus Houses, to be built on a site bounded by Wyckoff, Douglass, Bond and Hoyt Sts. This State-aided development will cost $6,738,000. The architects are Rosario Candela, Ely Jacques Kahn and William T. McCarthy."
- Date1945
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
- NoteTitle from caption on verso of 0107. On verso of 0110: date stamped: Oct. 14, 1945; New York City Housing Authority stamp on verso of 0111.
- CreatorNew York City Housing Authority
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBoerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.