About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0852
  • TitleDoing disappearing act
  • SummaryFour sanitation workers (one holding shovel) watching truck dump load of snow into canal; brick factory building in background. Caption: "Doing disappearing act: Snow which had clogged borough streets is dumped from Department of Sanitation truck into Gowanus Canal at Butler and Nevins Sts."
  • Date1947
  • 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: Feb. 27, 1947. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSnow removal -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Carroll Gardens (New York, N.Y.)Gowanus Canal (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: Sanitation Department: After 1940