About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0034
  • TitleSchaefer Brewing Company
  • SummaryCaption: "Postwar brewery expansion--East River view (architectural rendering) of the plant expansion planned for the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company [located on Kent Avenue] in Brooklyn, which has awarded a $2,000,000 contract to the Turner Construction Company of New York for completion of the eight-story beer storage stock house (large structure above) begun before the war, and for four new building projects. Eggers and Higgins are the architects. the work will be completed by spring."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn recto: "A. R. Congdon" printed in lower left. Title and date (Sept. 20, 1945) from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBreweries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (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: Breweries: Schaefer: Building