About This Item

  • TitleLights slated to go off in veterans' project
  • Call NumberHOUS_0139
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMother seated in armchair between her husband and son, who wear bed clothes and hold candles and candlesticks; mother reading magazine and wearing dress with pearl necklace. Caption on verso: "Lights Slated To Go Off In Veterans' Projects: In the Manhattan Beach Housing Project, where utilities were to be cut off at 12:01 a.m., Mrs. Rose Anne Friedman was still making good use of the electricity long past midnight. Her husband, David J., and son, Ira, are prepared with candles. The same situation prevails at the Marine Park Veterans Housing Project, where up to daybreak the edict had not taken effect as yet."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 1, 1953; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectVeterans -- Housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Families -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.