About This Item

  • Call NumberMEMO_0016
  • TitleBrooklyn War Memorial
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (MEMO 0014, MEMO 0015, MEMO 0017, MEMO 0013, MEMO 0018), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six exterior views of construction of the Brooklyn War Memorial. Caption (0013): " Brooklyn War Memorial--Rising in the midst of S. Parkes Cadman Plaza is the Brooklyn War Memorial, first structure to be built in the Brooklyn civic Center. The $5000,000 builsing, which will contain a large auditorium, meeting rooms for veteran groups, and the anmes of the more than 7,000 boro war dead, will be completed by fall."
  • Date1951, 1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: 0013: Mar. 27, 1951; 0014, 0015: Jul[y] 11, 1951; 0016: Oct. 26, 1951;0017: Oct. 29, 1951; 0018: Sep[t] 28, 1953. Title from inscription on verso of 0013..
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBuilding construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Memorials -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Midwood (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: Memorials: Brooklyn War Memorial: Construction