About This Item
- TitleWhen winter comes
- Call NumberMEMO_0121
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryMan mowing patch of lawn before statue of Henry Ward Beecher by John Quincy Adams Ward on plaza before Brooklyn Borough Hall (not seen); pedestrians, traffic, and newsstand framed against high rise building on busy street in background. Caption: "When Winter Comes: Frank Wallace of 31 Diamond St., one of five Park Department workers in charge of lawns, plants and trees between Brooklyn Bridge and Boro Hall Park, gives the grass in the shade of the Henry Ward Beecher monument, facing Boro Hall, its final trimming before Spring . . . ".
- Date1948
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec 3 1948; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectBeecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 -- Statues ; Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910 ; Brooklyn Borough Hall (New York, N.Y.) ; Sculpture -- New York (State) -- New York ; Blue collar workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lawn mowers -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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.