About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0783
  • TitleFor your mail
  • SummaryCaption: "For your mail--New 100,000 square feet garage at 12th St. and 2d Ave. being made ready for use next month by the Brooklyn Post Office for housing its increasing number of trucks used to carry the borough's rising volume of mail." Image includes two parked automobiles and street lamp with street signs in foreground.
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 27, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGarages -- New York (State) -- New York ; Post office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Street lighting -- New York (State) -- New York ; Street signs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Carroll Gardens (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: Proposals