About This Item

  • TitleSewage flow cut off
  • Call NumberWORK_0881
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Mayor Impellitteri, left, with Brooklyn Borough President John Cashmore looking on, turns valve which starts Owls Head Sewage Treatment Plant in Bay Ridge operating."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Apr. 3, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; on caption: "Eagle staff photo by Lambert." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCashmore, John, 1895-1961 ; Impellitteri, Vincent R. (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987 ; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sewage disposal plants -- 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.