About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0106
  • Title[Gowanus Houses under construction]
  • SummaryView of housing project under construction at site bounded by Hoyt, Bond, Douglass, and Wyckoff Streets; completed fourteen-story building at left; completed six-story building in center; half completed building at right; steam shovel, construction debris, and workers in foreground.
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 7, 1949. Inscription on recto.
  • SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Building construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBoerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Housing: Gowanus Houses