About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0870
  • TitleSafety fence
  • SummaryCaption: "Typical safety fence added to working operations by WPA engineers--At 62nd Street and Fort Hamilton Avenue [sic], a new vertical brick shaft leading to the 39-year-old Flatbush and Bay Ridge Sewer System which empties out into the Narrows in being built by WPA." The image, an aerial view, which includes a crane and a truck in foreground, is not dated.
  • Date[194-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectCranes, derricks, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fences -- New York (State) ; Sewage disposal -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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: General