About This Item

  • TitleWilliamsburg Savings Bank
  • Call NumberBANK_0277
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BANK 0259, BANK 0278, BANK 0279, BANK 0284, BANK 0281, BANK 0280, BANK 0283, BANK 0282), some of which may also be described in this new record; Nine exterior views, in several different sizes, of Ed Kemp, a window washer, working on the Williamsburg Savings Bank building located at 1 Hanson Place. 0277 includes inset of Kemp in upper right; 0278, 0269, 0280, 0282, 0283, and 0284 are close-up views of Kemp.
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description9 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteStamped on verso: Brooklyn Eagle stamp; date stamped: 0277, 0278, 0282, 0283, 0284: Nov. 17, 1952; 0259, 0279, 0280, 0281: Nov. 12, 1952; 0259, 0282: photographer's stamp: Jules Geller. 0277, 0278, 0283: cropped; 0278, 0282, 0283: retouched; 0282: grease pencil cropping marks. 0279 and 0284 are identical. Title from caption on verso of 0277.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectBank buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Window cleaning -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.