About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2030
  • TitleSite of new Williamsburg Houses
  • SummarySeveral vacant wood frame buildings with woman wearing kerchief sitting in folding shair in foreground. Caption: "... site of the new Williamsburg Houses--largest government slum clearance and housing project in the country--before ... the project began. Here is a picture taken in the area before the old buildings there were condemned to make way for the new houses."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately half of the original image appears to be missing. On verso: date inscribed: June 25/37. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectAbandoned houses ; Houses [lctgm] ; Slums
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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: Williamsburg: Housing: Exterior