About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1919
  • TitleStarts Gerritsen Beach improvements
  • SummaryCaption: "Borough President Cashmore breaks ground for $1,290,000 flood prevention and street repair program in Gerritsen Beach. With him are, left to right, State Senator William Rosenblatt, Councilman Morris Stein, Municipal Court Justice Harold J. McLaughlin, James M. Power, Democratic leader of the 13th A.D., and Assemblyman Lawrence P. Murphy."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 9, 1949; "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFlood control -- New York (State) -- New York ; Ground breaking ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gerritsen Beach (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: Gerritsen Beach: Floods and sewerage