SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOUS 0118, HOUS 0116, HOUS 0114), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views of Quonset huts, on lot bounded by Rockaway Parkway, East 102nd Street, and Seaview Avenue, built as temporary housing for veterans; 0114 shows man holding door of hut open for Governor Thomas Dewey and other dignitaries on inspection tour; 0116 shows workers adjusting tarp over roof of hut and other worker standing inside half open door; 0117 shows three huts with newly seeded lawns and two pairs of pedestrians at far right and far left; 0118 shows four huts surrounded by bare plots and the gravel foundation of a sidewalk in foreground.
NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso of 0018: date inscribed: 1946.
SubjectDewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 ; Quonset huts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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