About This Item
- TitleLights Out for Project Veterans
- Call NumberHOUS_0141
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryMother attending to crying baby on bed; four other children standing at bedside. Caption on verso: "Lights Out for Project Veterans: With electricity turned off by State officials who are trying to close Manhattan Beach Veterans Housing Project, Mrs. Louise Clark, wife of a fire lieutenant, comforts her family. Baby in bed is week-old Barbara Marie. Holding candle is Tommy, 14, while looking on are Helen, 3; Marylou, 10, and Joe, 13. Clarks have two more sons; say finding new apartment for big family is difficult."
- Date1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Dec. 2, 1953; photographer's stamp; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectPublic housing -- New York (State) -- New York ; Apartment dwellers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Families -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.)
- 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.