About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0777
  • TitleProposed postal center
  • SummaryCaption: "Proposed postal center--The view from the northwest of a design for a new Brooklyn postal center. Street at lower right is 5th Ave. and, at left, Atlantic Ave. Buildings in foreground would be for public service and administration, the next for mail processing, and the last, a 1,000 truck garage and repair shop."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 13 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: caption stamped: Dec. 7, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPost office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBoerum Hill (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Post office: General