About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0847
  • TitleCity collects Sea Gate garbage
  • SummaryThree garbagemen loading curbside refuse into garbage truck. Caption: "City collects Sea Gate garbage: A Sanitation Department truck manned by city White Wings, on Beach St. in Sea Gate section of Coney Island, picks up part of estimated 30 to 40 tons of refuse accumulated since Sea Gate's private collectors went on strike Friday. . . ."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jul. 30, 1953; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRefuse collection vehicles -- New York (State) -- New York ; Refuse collectors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanitary engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sea Gate (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: Sanitation Department: After 1940