About This Item


  • TitleAnti-filth brigade
  • Call NumberCONE_0070
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCrew of workmen with shovels and rakes cleaning beach; several trash receptacles. Caption: "Anti-filth brigade--Augmented squads of Park Department employes [sic] begin cleanup maneuver at Coney Island beach. ... More than 100 men were added to the regular maintenance staff to keep the beach in a sanitary condition."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso; date stamped: Jul[y] 12, 1946. Slightly damaged in upper right. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorNew York (N.Y.). Dept. of Parks.
  • 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.