About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2480
  • TitleCivic progress
  • SummaryRow of rundown and abandoned apartment houses with laundry lines between buildings, three children playing and several other people. Caption: "Civic progress--These wash lines and decrepit buildings will disappear from the view of patients in Long Island College Hospital to make way for the playground for which the hospital's Board of Regents has donated $46,000 of land between Hicks, Amity, Columbia and Pacific Sts."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 20, 1941. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAbandoned houses ; Laundry ; Tenement houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cobble Hill (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: Cobble Hill: Neighborhoods