About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0883
  • TitleTurns first wheel
  • SummaryCaption: "Turns first wheel--Public Works Commissioner, Frederick H. Zurmuhlen starts the flow of raw sewage through the new $19,000,000 Owls Head Sewage Disposal Plant today as project manager, Richard H. Gould, looks on."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Feb. 19, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMunicipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sewage disposal plants -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Sewage: Owls Head Sewage Treatment Plant