About This Item

  • Call NumberPARK_0020
  • TitleOpening gun for Manhattan Beach Park
  • SummaryCaption: "Opening gun for Manhattan Beach Park--Governor Dewey presents deed to 24 acres of land to be used as the site for the proposed Manhattan Beach Park, to Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. State Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein, at right, watches the presentation, which, coupled with an earlier transfer of 16 acres from state to city ownership, will provide the site for a beach, picnic area, playgrounds, parking area and other facilities."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Oct. 18, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Eagle photo by Dan Fox." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 ; Moses, Robert, 1888-1981
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Parks: Manhattan Beach Park