About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_1042
  • TitleConversion kickoff
  • SummaryCaption: "Conversion kickoff--Natural Texas gas begins to flow into the Williamsburg mains of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, as Hugh Cuthrell, president of the company, swings open the master valve at the utility's Greenpoint plant. Observing the pre-dawn operation starting the biggest conversion project in history, to affect 3,000,000 Brooklyn and Queens residents by the fall are, left to right, vice presidents Glen E. Foster and Ansel B. Huyck, and John E. Heyke, executive vice president."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 6, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Union Gas Company ; Gas companies -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Valves
  • 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: Utilities: Brooklyn Union Gas Co.: General