About This Item

  • Call NumberHOUS_0037
  • TitleReaching skyward
  • SummaryView of construction site with two workers, one climbing girder near top, the other holding girder at base; apartment buildings in background. Caption on verso: "Reaching Skyward: Workmen set in place the first steel girders of Concord Village at the giant develpment at Tillary and Adams Sts. Three of the 15-story apartment buildings are scheduled to be completed at the end of this year."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: May 25, 1950; "Eagle Staff photo." Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBuilding construction -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Construction workers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public housing -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Housing: Concord Village