About This Item

  • Call NumberSWEL_0471
  • TitleFrom steel mills to home for aged
  • SummaryCaption: "From steel mills to home for aged--At signing of steel contract for new $1,500,000 Haym Salomon Home and Hospital for the Aged, under construction at Cropsey Avenue and Bay 34th Street, are, left to right, Claire Fox, executive director of the home; Louis Blumenstock, president; Harold M. Brown, attorney; Benjamin Wachs, building committee chairman; David Picket, president, Gotham Construction Company, the general contractor; Samuel Dreier, treasurer, Dreier Structural Steel Company; Louis Borenstein, chairman board of directors of the home, and Morton A. Shapiro, attorney for the Dreier company."
  • 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: date stamped: Jul[y] 21, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorCanner, Irving
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHaym Salomon Home for the Aged (New York, N.Y.) ; Old age homes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • 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: Social welfare: Homes: Haym Salomon Home for the Aged: II