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  • TitleGood news for Brooklyn Yard
  • Call NumberNEIG_2390
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Good news for Brooklyn Yard--Representative Francis E. Dorn, Brooklyn Republican, Navy officials and two representatives of employee groups at the Brooklyn Navy Yard point to the subject [on a large globe] of their Washington talks after conference on planned job cuts at the borough yard. As a result of the conference, the original 10 percent cut, meaning 2,000 jobs, was scaled down to less than 8 percent, or 1,500 jobs. Left to right are Rear Admiral W. D. Leggett, Thomas Curry, Dorn, Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson, and Hugh Breslin [wearing a neck brace]." Image includes an unidentified man sitting in upper right background.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 15, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDorn, Francis E. (Francis Edwin), 1911-1987 ; United States. Navy -- Officers -- New York (State) -- New York ; United States. Navy Department -- Officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; New York Naval Shipyard ; Globes -- New York (State) -- New York ; Legislators -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Navy Yard (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.