About This Item

  • Call NumberGOVT_0005
  • Title[Workers and gas lamp]
  • SummaryWorker with hammer standing on column of ruined gas lamp; second worker with blow torch looking up at him; several men observing work in progress; arched portal of courthouse building (no longer extant) in left background. Caption on verso: "Taking down what is believed to be the last of the old gas lamp street lights in Brooklyn in front of the old Adams St. Courthouse in Adams St., near Myrtle Ave."
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: July 14/38; "Eagle Staff Photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectStreet lighting -- New York (State) -- New York ; Blue collar workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Government: Judiciary: Adams Street Court