About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1051
  • TitleMen cleaning 12-inch gun
  • SummaryCaption: "Brooklyn's unemployed have been helping in the cleaning and overhauling of the large guns at Fort Hamilton, under the supervision of the officers there. this photo shows some [fourteen] of the men cleaning one of the large 12-inch guns."
  • Date1932
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately 1/4 of original image appears to be missing. On recto: "Triboro" printed in black in lower right. On verso: date inscribed: June 26/32; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorTri-boro Photos [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectOrdnance
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Hamilton (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: Fort Hamilton: Military: Guns