About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0879
  • TitlePower for municipal cleanliness
  • SummaryCaption: "Power for municipal cleanliness--The last of six 900 kilowat electric generators for New York City's new Owls Head Sewage Treatment Plant in Brooklyn goes on final pre-delivery test here [East Pittsburgh, PA] at the Westinghouse Electric plant where they were built. ..."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Nov. 13, 1950; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectElectric generators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sewage disposal -- 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: Sewage: Owls Head Sewage Treatment Plant