About This Item


  • TitleGroup of people posing with shovels.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0266
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMembers of the Polish & Slavic Center planting trees on Kent Street, posing with gold shovels. Donor, Tadusz Chabrowski, fourth from left, holding blue hard hat.
  • Date[2000?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • Genrecolor photographsgroup portraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph, 4 x 6 inches, digitized on December 16, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Tadusz Chabrowski at Greenpoint Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectTree planting ; Shovels ; Polish Americans
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
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