About This Item
- TitleEagle spurs cleanup action
- Call NumberCONE_0069
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryCrew of workmen with rakes cleaning beach; two trash receptacles, three women sitting on beach in left foreground, and jetty in background. Caption: "Eagle spurs cleanup action--Informed by the Brooklyn Eagle of complaints of unsanitary conditions at Coney Island beach, Mayor O'Dwyer immediately ordered Park Department officials to begin a cleanup campaign. An emergency detail is shown hand-raking the beach for litter at Stillwell late yesterday."
- Date1946
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 12, 1946. Title from caption on verso.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBeaches ; Sanitation
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (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.