About This Item
- TitleScene of misplaced foundation
- Call NumberHOUS_0025
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryAerial view of construction site for housing project at Rockaway, Stone, and Dumont Avenues; workers in raincoats on second floor of building in foreground; steam shovel lowering equipment to them; prominent neo-classical building amid smaller buildings in background. Caption on verso: "Scene of Misplaced Foundation: This is a general view of the $13,298,000 Brownsville Housing Project."
- Date1946
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: Dec. 13, 1946; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBuilding construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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.