About This Item

  • TitleHousing check
  • Call NumberNEIG_2047
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySeven men, most in suits, one in workers' overalls, inspecting ramshackle storefront with sign, "Pressing Machines." Caption: "Housing check along Cook St. in Williamsburg begins as Chief Inspector Russell J. Dunachie, pointing in photo at left, briefs his Housing and Building inspectors. The day-long survey of six city departments opened a new phase in the fight against slum conditions."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Mar. 2, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso. 8 x 6 photographic image mounted on 10 x 7 cardboard frame. Retouched.
  • CreatorLambert, Al [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectStorefronts ; Building inspectors
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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.