About This Item


  • TitleBrooklyn Union Gas Company
  • Call NumberWORK_1055
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 1051, WORK 1052, WORK 1053, WORK 1054, WORK 1056, WORK 1057), some of which may also be described in this new record; Seven views, in four different sizes, of Brooklyn Union Gas Company employees doing various jobs, such as working on refrigerators, stoves, and heaters, relating to the conversion to natural gas. 1051 includes Municipal Court Justice Dominick Rinaldi seen in kitchen wearing bathrobe and shaving. 1054 includes unidentified housewife seen in kitchen wearing bathrobe.1055 and 1056 show man with electric drill.
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description7 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: dates stamped: Mar. 3, 1952; Mar. 10, 1952; Mar. 17, 1952; Mar. 31, 1952; Apr. 3, 1952; Apr. 7, 1952; Apr. 21, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched;1051, 1052, 1053, 1054, 1057: grease pencil cropping marks. Stemped on verso of 1057: Sid B. Clark, commercial photographer." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectElectric drills -- New York (State) -- New York ; Heating -- New York (State) -- New York ; Kitchens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Shaving ; Water heaters -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.