About This Item

  • Call NumberGOVT_0006
  • Title[Workers clearing debris in front of court house building in Brooklyn Heights]
  • SummaryThree workers with shovels in small yard before brick building (no longer extant) with projecting entrance portal; sign on window behind workers reads, "F. H. La Guardia, Mayor / Dept. of Sanitation"; supporting girder of elevated subway tracks in foreground. Caption on verso: "Dilapidated Adams St. structure, now in hands of Sanitation Department, is being torn apart and put together wagain by WPA workers, who are uncovering relics of the famous old bastille as they work on."
  • Date1937
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On verso: date inscribed: May 5/37. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectBlue collar workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Government: Judiciary: Adams Street Court