About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0045
  • TitleReassured
  • SummaryLarge crowd of men, women, and children (some smiling) standing infront of columned arches of court building (since demolished) in downtown Brooklyn. Caption on verso: "Reassured: Having learned from Justice Henry G. Ughetta that they were in do danger of the immediate eviction they feared, tenants of the buildings of the Farragut Housing site leave the Supreme Court Building after appearing in courtroom."
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 26, 1948; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectApartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Eviction -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown 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: Evictions