About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0151
  • TitleFights housing crisis
  • SummaryGovernor Thomas Dewey conferring with two other officials before military barracks. Caption: "Fights Housing Crisis: Governor Dewey inspecting U.S. Coast Guard Training Station at Manhattan Beach as a possible emergency housing site. The Governor, shown at left, is studying one of the station's barracks. With him are Capt. J. R. Baylis, commanding officer of the station, center, and State Housing Commissioner Herman T. Stichman."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 29, 1945; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Veterans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Barracks -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan 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: Housing: Manhattan Beach: Veterans Project