About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0027
  • TitleCornerstone laying
  • SummaryMan in overcoat and fedora laying cornerstone (inscribed"1947") for housing project at Rockaway, Stone, and Dumont Avenues; two other offcials and one worker (partially seen) observing; steam shovel in background. Caption on verso: "Cornerstone Laying: Edmond B. Butler, chairman of the City Housing Authority, pushes cornerstone of Brownsville Houses in place while Mrs. Mary K. Simkhovitch, vice chairman, and Maxwell H. Tretter, look on. Project should be ready for first tenants in June."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 6, 1947; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCornerstone laying -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal officials and employees -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brownsville (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: Brownsville Houses