About This Item

  • TitleLongshoreman's Shelter
  • Call NumberSWEL_0416
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryArchitectural rendering of proposed Longshoremen's Shelter to be constructed in South Brooklyn, presumably Red Hook. Large sign above entrance: "Longshoremens Checkers and Clerks Shelter, Port of Brooklyn, 1953."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 19, 1953; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectLongshoremen's Shelter (New York, N.Y.) ; Shelters -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (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.