About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0899
  • TitleBuilding a school
  • SummaryCaption: "Building a school--Mayor LaGuardia laid the cornerstone at Fort Hamilton High School [located at 8301 Shore Road] today ... in the presence of Dr. Harold G. Campbell, superintendent of schools; Special Sessions Justice Matthew J. Troy, William R. Crowley, Brooklyn member of the Board of Education, and Borough President John Cashmore (left to right).
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 24/40. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLa Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947 ; Fort Hamilton High School (New York, N.Y.) ; Cornerstone laying -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Hamilton (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: Schools: Public: High schools: Fort Hamilton