About This Item
- Title[Worker painting courthouse dome]
- Call NumberGOVT_0185
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryWorker in harness painting dome of neo-classical Kings County Courthouse on Joralemon and Fulton Streets (subsequently demolished); three other workers with paint brushes standing on rooftop in left foreground; tops of skyscrapers on Court Street, including cupola of Borough Hall, in background. Caption: "WPA workmen have turned Supreme Courthouse dome into shining white beacon for the Borough Hall section. This was first painting job on dome in seven years."
- Date1935
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 23/35. Grease pencil cropping marks; circle drawn over worker on dome.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
- SubjectUnited States. Work Projects Administration ; Painters, Industrial -- New York (State) -- New York ; Courthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Domes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown 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.